The effect of liberty to in... by Edmund Burke, an Irish Statesman

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“The effect of liberty to individuals is that they may do what they please: we ought to see what it will please them to do, before we risk congratulations.”

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Name: Edmund Burke

Nationality: Irish

Date of Birth: Jan 12, 1729

Date of Death: Jul 9, 1797

Profession: Statesman

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No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.

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A disposition to preserve, and an ability to improve, taken together, would be my standard of a statesman.

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You can never plan the future by the past.

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He had no failings which were not owing to a noble cause; to an ardent, generous, perhaps an immoderate passion for fame; a passion which is the instinct of all great souls.

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