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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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It looks to me to be narrow and pedantic to apply the ordinary ideas of criminal justice to this great public contest. I do not know the method of drawing up an indictment against a whole people. – Edmund Burke

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Edmund Burke
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Whilst shame keeps its watch, virtue is not wholly extinguished in the heart; nor will moderation be utterly exiled from the minds of tyrants. – 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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What we know of other peoples only our memory of the moments during which we knew them. – TS (Thomas Stearns) Eliot

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There are two kinds of people in the world, those who believe there are two kinds of people in the world and those who dont. – Robert Benchley

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The ones who count are those persons who – Martin Buber

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