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Quote by Edmund Burke

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People will not look forward to posterity who will not look backward to their ancestors. – Edmund Burke

Other quotes by Edmund Burke

Politics and the pulpit are terms that have little agreement. – Edmund Burke

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It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact. – Edmund Burke

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There is a boundary to mens passions when they act from feelings but none when they are under the influence of imagination. – Edmund Burke

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If the history of the past fifty years teaches us anything, it is that peace does not follow disarmament – disarmament follows peace. – Bernard Baruch

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The more the history of the World War and what led up to it is studied, the more clearly those tragic years become revealed as a vast collapse of civilization. – Arthur Henderson

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We proceed out of history into history again. – Sidney Alexander

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Stern accuracy in inquiring, bold imagination in describing, these are the cogs on which history soars or flutters and wobbles. – Thomas Carlyle

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