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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All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter. – Edmund Burke

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Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom and a great empire and little minds go ill together. – Edmund Burke

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Only a few human beings should grow to the square mile; they are commonly planted too close. – William T. Davis

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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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The present ideal is the worship of the gents who sing like canaries and the women who bellow like lions. – Martin H. Fischer (1879–1962)

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If we had no faults of our own, we would not take so much pleasure in noticing those of others. – François VI de la Rochefoucault

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