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• The concessions of the weak are the concessions of fear.
  -- Edmund Burke (1729-1797) -- Speech on the Conciliation of America, Vol. ii, p. 108...
• A wise and salutary neglect. -- Edmund Burke (1729-1797) -- Speech on the Conciliation of America, Vol.
  ii, p. 117...
• All government,--indeed, every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue and every prudent act,--is founded on compromise and barter.
  -- Edmund Burke (1729-1797) -- Speech on the Conciliation of America, Vol. ii, p. 169...
• A people who are still, as it were, but in the gristle, and not yet hardened into the bone of manhood.
  -- Edmund Burke (1729-1797) -- Speech on the Conciliation of America, Vol. ii, p. 117...
• I do not know the method of drawing up an indictment against a whole people.
  -- Edmund Burke (1729-1797) -- Speech on the Conciliation of America, Vol. ii, p. 136...
• My vigour relents,--I pardon something to the spirit of liberty.
  -- Edmund Burke (1729-1797) -- Speech on the Conciliation of America, Vol. ii, p. 118...
• Fiction lags after truth, invention is unfruitful, and imagination cold and barren.
  -- Edmund Burke (1729-1797) -- Speech on the Conciliation of America, Vol. ii, p. 116...
• The religion most prevalent in our northern colonies is a refinement on the principles of resistance
  it is the dissidence of dissent, and the protestantism of the Protestant religion....
• There is America, which at this day serves for little more than to amuse you with stories of savage men and uncouth manne
  yet shall, before you taste of death, show itself equal to the whole of that commerce which now attracts the envy of the world....