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"No government could stand a moment, if it could be blown down with anything so loose and indefinite as an opinion of "misconduct.
Edmund Burke (12 January 1729 – 9 July 1797) was a British and Irish statesman and philosopher. Born in Dublin, Burke served as a member of parliament (MP) between 1766 and 1794 in the House of Commons of Great Britain with the Whig Party after moving to London in 1750.
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A História consiste, em sua maior parte, das misérias trazidas ao mundo por orgulho, ambição, avareza, vingança, luxúria, sedição, hipocrisia, zelo desgovernado e toda a linha de apetites desordenados que abalam a vida pública com as mesmas
[...] agitadas tempestades que sacodem
A vida privada, e tornam a existência amarga.
Esses vícios são as causas dessas tempestades. A religião, a moral, as leis, as prerrogativas, os privilégios, as liberdades, os direitos dos homens são os pretextos. Os pretextos sempre aparecem com alguma aparência ilusória de um bem real. Você não preservaria os homens da tirania e da sedição ao extirpar da mente os princípios aos quais estes pretextos fraudulentos se aplicam?
Nothing universal can be rationally affirmed on any moral or any political subject. Pure metaphysical abstraction does not belong to these matters. The lines of morality are not like the ideal lines of mathematics. They are broad and deep as well as long. They admit of exceptions; they demand modifications. These exceptions and modifications are not made by the process of logic, but by the rules of prudence.
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