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• 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...
• 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...
• The concessions of the weak are the concessions of fear.
  -- Edmund Burke (1729-1797) -- Speech on the Conciliation of America, Vol. ii, p. 108...
• The march of the human mind is slow. -- Edmund Burke (1729-1797) -- Speech on the Conciliation of America, Vol.
  ii, p. 149...
• A wise and salutary neglect. -- Edmund Burke (1729-1797) -- Speech on the Conciliation of America, Vol.
  ii, p. 117...
• 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...
• 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...
• 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...
• 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....