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• Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other.
  -- Edmund Burke (1729-1797) -- Reflections on the Revolution in France, -- Letter i, On a Regicide Peace, Vol....
• All those instances to be found in history, whether real or fabulou
  of a doubtful public spirit, at which morality is perplexed, reason is staggered, and from which affrighted Nature recoils, are their chosen and almost sole examples for the instruction of their youth....
• The men of England,--the men, I mean, of light and leading in England.
  -- Edmund Burke (1729-1797) -- Reflections on the Revolution in France, Vol. iii, p. 365...
• You can never plan the future by the past. -- Edmund Burke (1729-1797) -- Reflections on the Revolution in France, -- Letter to a Member of the National Assembly, Vol.
  iv, p. 55...
• The cold neutrality of an impartial judge. -- Edmund Burke (1729-1797) -- Reflections on the Revolution in France, -- Preface to Brissot's Address, Vol.
  v, p. 67...
• Vice itself lost half its evil by losing all its grossness.
  -- Edmund Burke (1729-1797) -- Reflections on the Revolution in France, Vol. iii, p. 332...
• You had that action and counteraction which, in the natural and in the political world, from the reciprocal struggle of discordant powers draws out the harmony of the universe.
  -- Edmund Burke (1729-1797) -- Reflections on the Revolution in France, Vol. iii, p. 277...
• And having looked to Government for bread, on the very first scarcity they will turn and bite the hand that fed them.
  -- Edmund Burke (1729-1797) -- Reflections on the Revolution in France, -- Thoughts and Details on Scarcity, Vol....
• Learning will be cast into the mire and trodden down under the hoofs of a swinish multitude.
  -- Edmund Burke (1729-1797) -- Reflections on the Revolution in France, Vol. iii, p. 335...