It was an unintentional consequence of development. Each individual developer made the decision on their own.


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If the people are happy, united, wealthy, and powerful, we presume the rest. We conclude that to be ...
EDMUND BURKE
To make us love our country, our country ought to be lovely.
EDMUND BURKE
Our patience will achieve more than our force.
EDMUND BURKE
Parliament is not a congress of ambassadors from different and hostile interests; which interests ea...
EDMUND BURKE
Good order is the foundation of all great things.
EDMUND BURKE
The yielding of the weak is the concession to fear.
EDMUND BURKE
When the leaders choose to make themselves bidders at an auction of popularity, their talents, in th...
EDMUND BURKE
If you can be well without health, you may be happy without virtue.
EDMUND BURKE
What ever disunites man from God, also disunites man from man.
EDMUND BURKE
The tyranny of a multitude is a multiplied tyranny.
EDMUND BURKE
Tyrants seldom want pretexts.
EDMUND BURKE
Kings will be tyrants from policy, when subjects are rebels from principle.
EDMUND BURKE
And having looked to government for bread, on the very first scarcity they will turn and bite the ha...
EDMUND BURKE
In the weakness of one kind of authority, and in the fluctuation of all, the officers of an army wil...
EDMUND BURKE
It is from this absolute indifference and tranquillity of the mind, that mathematical speculations d...
EDMUND BURKE
Manners are of more importance than laws. Manners are what vex or soothe, corrupt or purify, exalt o...
EDMUND BURKE
Men are qualified for civil liberty in exact proportion to their disposition to put moral chains upo...
EDMUND BURKE
The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedience, and by parts.
EDMUND BURKE
Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other
EDMUND BURKE
Mere parsimony is not economy. Expense, and great expense, may be an essential part in true economy.
EDMUND BURKE
Under the pressure of the cares and sorrows of our mortal condition, men have at all times, and in a...
EDMUND BURKE
In this choice of inheritance we have given to our frame of polity the image of a relation in blood;...
EDMUND BURKE
A nation is not conquered which is perpetually to be conquered.
EDMUND BURKE
Spain: A whale stranded upon the coast of Europe.
EDMUND BURKE
He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves, and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helpe...
EDMUND BURKE
Dignity belongs to the conquered.
KENNETH BURKE
In a democracy the majority of citizens is capable of exercising the most cruel oppressions upon the...
EDMUND BURKE
The great must submit to the dominion of prudence and of virtue, or none will long submit to the dom...
EDMUND BURKE
Great men are the guideposts and landmarks in the state.
EDMUND BURKE
To survive there, you need the ambition of a Latin-American revolutionary, the ego of a grand opera ...
BILLIE BURKE
People will not look forward to posterity who will not look backward to their ancestors.
EDMUND BURKE
In doing good, we are generally cold, and languid, and sluggish; and of all things afraid of being t...
EDMUND BURKE
Liberty must be limited in order to be possessed.
EDMUND BURKE
The people never give up their liberties, but under some delusion.
EDMUND BURKE