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«But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophisters, economists, and calculators, has succeeded; and the glory of Europe is extinguished for ever.»
Author: Edmund Burke
(Philosopher, Statesman)
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calculator, calculators, economists, extinguished
«Superstition is the religion of feeble minds»
«Early and provident fear is the mother of safety»
«It is in the interest of the commercial world that wealth should be found everywhere»
«They defend their errors as if they were defending their inheritance.»
«People crushed by laws, have no hope but to evade power. If the laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to the law; and those who have must to hope and nothing to lose will always be dangerous.»
Author: Edmund Burke
(Philosopher, Statesman)
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by laws, crushed, evade, evaded, evading, Nothing to Lose
«In the weakness of one kind of authority, and in the fluctuation of all, the officers of an army will remain for some time mutinous and full of faction, until some popular general, who understands the art of conciliating the soldiery, and who possesses the true spirit of command, shall draw the eyes of all men upon himself. Armies will obey him on his personal account. There is no other way of securing military obedience in this state of things.»
Author: Edmund Burke
(Philosopher, Statesman)
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army officer, conciliate, conciliating, faction, factions, fluctuation, fluctuations, military officer, mutinous, officers, securing, soldiery
«Restraint and discipline and examples of virtue and justice. These are the things that form the education of the world.»
«When ancient opinions and rules of life are taken away, the loss cannot possibly be estimated. From that moment, we have no compass to govern us, nor can we know distinctly to what port to steer.»
«Where mystery begins religion ends.»
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