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Edmund Burke

Edmund Burke

Country Ireland
Born Tuesday, 30 November -0001
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Quotes 35

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Quotes by Edmund Burke

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No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear. Uncategorized
In effect, to follow, not to force the public inclination; to give a direction, a form, a technical dress, and a specific sanction, to the general sense of the community, is the true end of legislature. Uncategorized
There is a boundary to men's passions when they act from feelings; but none when they are under the influence of imagination. Uncategorized
Facts are to the mind what food is to the body. Uncategorized
The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion. Uncategorized
Circumstances give in reality to every political principle its distinguishing color and discriminating effect. The circumstances are what render every civil and political scheme beneficial or noxious to mankind. Uncategorized
A State without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation. Uncategorized
There is but one law for all, namely that law which governs all law, the law of our Creator, the law of humanity, justice, equity - the law of nature and of nations. Uncategorized
The first and simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind, is curiosity. Uncategorized
Under the pressure of the cares and sorrows of our mortal condition, men have at all times, and in all countries, called in some physical aid to their moral consolations - wine, beer, opium, brandy, or tobacco. Uncategorized
To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting. Uncategorized
A spirit of innovation is generally the result of a selfish temper and confined views. People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors. Uncategorized
We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature. Uncategorized
In a democracy, the majority of the citizens is capable of exercising the most cruel oppressions upon the minority. Uncategorized
Our patience will achieve more than our force. Uncategorized
It is not what a lawyer tells me I may do; but what humanity, reason, and justice tell me I ought to do. Uncategorized
Among a people generally corrupt liberty cannot long exist. Uncategorized
Those who don't know history are destined to repeat it. Uncategorized
All that's necessary for the forces of evil to win in the world is for enough good men to do nothing. Uncategorized
But what is liberty without wisdom, and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils; for it is folly, vice, and madness, without tuition or restraint. Uncategorized