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Quote by Edmund Burke
They defend their errors as if they were defending their inheritan

They defend their errors as if they were defending their inheritance. – Edmund Burke

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I venture to say no war can be long carried on against the will of the people. – Edmund Burke

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Edmund Burke
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Obstinacy is will asserting itself without being able to justify itself. It is persistence without a reasonable motive. It is the tenacity of self-love substituted for that of reason and conscience. – Henri Frederic Amiel

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Like all weak men he laid an exaggerated stress on not changing ones mind. – W. Somerset Maugham

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Stubbornness is the strength of the weak. – Johann Kaspar Lavater

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He says NO! in thunder; but the Devil himself cannot make him say yes. – Herman Melville

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