Edmund Burke: “Full of dignity themselves, they respect dignity in all, but they feel…”

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Full of dignity themselves, they respect dignity in all, but they feel it sacred in the unhappy.

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Edmund Burke

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Burke emphasizes the importance of respecting dignity in all individuals, particularly those who are suffering.

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They will become flatterers instead of legislators,--the instruments, not the guides of the people.

Jan 1, 1790

They come from one who has been no tool of power, no flatterer of greatness, and who in his last acts does not wish to belie the tenor of his life.

Jan 1, 1790

I would not exclude alteration neither; but even when I changed, it should be to preserve.

Jan 1, 1790

Let us imitate their caution, if we wish to deserve their fortune or to retain their bequests.

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Edmund Burke: “Full of dignity themselves, they respect dignity in all, but they feel it sacred in the unhappy.”