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Quotes by Edmund Burke in Men category:
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"When bad men combine, the good must associate else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle." 4.1667 average rating  
"All government -- indeed, every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue and every prudent act -- is founded on compromise and barter." 4.0000 average rating  
"Nobility is a graceful ornament to the civil order. It is the Corinthian capital of polished society." 5.0000 average rating  
"There is a boundary to men's passions when they act from feelings; but none when they are under the influence of imagination." 5.0000 average rating  
"All that is necessary for the forces of evil to win in the world is for enough good men to do nothing." 4.9059 average rating  
"There is no safety for honest men but by believing all possible evil of evil men." 4.7000 average rating  
"Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants. Men have right that these wants should be provided for, [including] the want of a sufficient restraint upon their passions." 4.6667 average rating  
"Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other." 4.0000 average rating  
 




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