It is ordained in the eternal constitution of things, that men of intemperate minds cannot be free. Their passions forge their fetters.
Edmund Burke Quotes
The unbought grace of life, the cheap defence of nations, the nurse of manly sentiment and heroic enterprise is gone! it is gone, that sensibility of principle, that chastity of honour, which felt a stain like a wound, which ennobled whatever it touched, and under which vice itself lost half its evil, by losing all its grossness.
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| Birth: | 12th January, 1729 |
| Death: | 9th July, 1797 |
| Nationality: | Irish |
| Profession: | Philosopher, Politician |
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Edmund Burke was born in Dublin, Ireland. He was an Irish politician as well as an author, orator, political theorist and philosopher who, after moving to London, served as a Member of Parliament for many years in the House of Commons with the Whig Party.
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