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Edmund Burke (January 23, 1809 – January 25, 1882) was an American lawyer, newspaper editor and politician. He served as the United States Commissioner of Patents and as a U.S. Representative from New Hampshire in the 1840s. Early life and career Born in Westminster, Vermont, Burke was the son of Elijah and Grace (Jeffers) Burke. He attended the public schools and studied law with Henry Adams Bellows, future Chief Justice of the New Hampshire Supreme Court. Burke was admitted to the bar in 1826. He began practicing law in Colebrook, New Hampshire before moving to Claremont, New Hampshire in 1833. He assumed editorial management of the New Hampshire Argus, and when he moved to Newport, New Hampshire in 1834, he united the Argus with the New Hampshire Spectator of Newport. The newly created Argus and Spectator was a political newspaper. He was commissioned as an adjutant in the New Hampshire State militia in 1837 and as brigade inspector in 1838. Political career Elected as a Democrat to the Twenty-sixth, Twenty-seventh and Twenty-eighth Congresses, Burke served as United States Representative for the state of New Hampshire from March 4, 1839 to March 3, 1845. He was not a candidate for renomination in 1844.

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“The writers against religion, whilst they oppose every system, are wisely careful never to set up any of their own.”
— Preface
“I decline the election. — It has ever been my rule through life, to observe a proportion between my efforts and my objects. I have never been remarkable for a bold, active, and sanguine pursuit of advantages that are personal to myself.”
— Speech at Bristol on declining the poll (9 September 1780), quoted in The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. II (1855), p. 170
“Vice itself lost half its evil by losing all its grossness.”
— Volume iii, p. 332
“I would rather sleep in the southern corner of a little country churchyard, than in the tombs of the Capulets.”
— Letter to Matthew Smith
“Burke's book is a most admirable medication against the French disease, which has made too much progress even in this happy country. I admire his eloquence, I approve his politics, I adore his chivalry, and I can even forgive his superstition.”
— Edward Gibbon, letter to Lord Sheffield (5 February 1791), quoted in J. E. Norton (ed.), The Letters of Edward Gibbon: Volume Three 1784-1794 (1956), p. 216
“[Burke was] the most sagacious Politician of his age... Time has verified his predictions.”
— William Wordsworth, Two Addresses to the Freeholders of Westmorland (1818), p. 11

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Notable quotes

“The writers against religion, whilst they oppose every system, are wisely careful never to set up any of their own.”
— Preface
“I decline the election. — It has ever been my rule through life, to observe a proportion between my efforts and my objects. I have never been remarkable for a bold, active, and sanguine pursuit of advantages that are personal to myself.”
— Speech at Bristol on declining the poll (9 September 1780), quoted in The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. II (1855), p. 170
“Vice itself lost half its evil by losing all its grossness.”
— Volume iii, p. 332
“I would rather sleep in the southern corner of a little country churchyard, than in the tombs of the Capulets.”
— Letter to Matthew Smith
“Burke's book is a most admirable medication against the French disease, which has made too much progress even in this happy country. I admire his eloquence, I approve his politics, I adore his chivalry, and I can even forgive his superstition.”
— Edward Gibbon, letter to Lord Sheffield (5 February 1791), quoted in J. E. Norton (ed.), The Letters of Edward Gibbon: Volume Three 1784-1794 (1956), p. 216
“[Burke was] the most sagacious Politician of his age... Time has verified his predictions.”
— William Wordsworth, Two Addresses to the Freeholders of Westmorland (1818), p. 11

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