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Edmund Burke

Edmund Burke PC (12 January 1729– 9 July 1797) was an Irish statesman, author, orator, political theorist and philosopher who, after moving to England, served for many years in the House of Commons of Great Britain as a member of the Whig party.

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    “Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom; and a great empire and little minds go ill together.”
    —Edmund Burke (1729–1797)

    “We must soften into a credulity below the milkiness of infancy to think all men virtuous. We must be tainted with a malignity truly diabolical, to believe all the world to be equally wicked and corrupt.”
    —Edmund Burke (1729–1797)