Quote by Edmund Burke
If the people are happy, united, wealthy, and powerful, we presume

If the people are happy, united, wealthy, and powerful, we presume the rest. We conclude that to be good from whence good is derived. – Edmund Burke

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There is but one law for all, namely that law which governs all law, the law of our Creator, the law of humanity, justice, equity – the law of nature and of nations. – Edmund Burke

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Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation. – Edmund Burke

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There are two kinds of people, those who finish what they start and so on. – Robert Byrne

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Freaks are the much needed escape from the humdrum. They are poetry. – Albert Perry

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History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives. – Abba Eban

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He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire. – Winston Churchill

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