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Friday, 11 January 2019

HB -Edmund Burke 12 Jan 1729

Superstition is the religion of feeble minds.--Edmund Burke (1729-1797) _Reflections on the Revolution in France_ [1790]

There is no safety for honest men but by believing all possible evil of evil men.--Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France, p. 249.

To drive men from independence to live on alms, is itself great cruelty. - Edmund Burke Reflections on the Revolution in France, 1790

The religion most prevalent in our northern colonies is a refinement on the principles of resistance: it is the dissidence of dissent, and the protestantism of the Protestant religion. --Edmund Burke. 1729-1797.Speech on the Conciliation of America. P. 123.

When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall, one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle. - Edmund Burke (1729-1797) Thoughts on the Cause of the Present Discontents (1770)

Your representative owes you, not his industry only, but his judgment; and he betrays, instead of serving you, if he sacrifices it to your opinion.--Edmund Burke to the voters of Bristol, 1774

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