Edmund Burke
Edmund Burke
Edmund Burkewas an Irish statesman born in Dublin, as well as an author, orator, political theorist, and philosopher who, after moving to London, served as a member of parliamentfor many years in the House of Commons with the Whig Party...
NationalityIrish
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth12 January 1729
CountryIreland
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The ocean is an object of no small terror.
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The superfluities of a rich nation furnish a better object of trade than the necessities of a poor one. It is the interest of the commercial world that wealth should be found everywhere.
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The great must submit to the dominion of prudence and of virtue, or none will long submit to the dominion of the great.
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Dangers by being despised grow great.
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All men that are ruined, are ruined on the side of their natural propensities.
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The yielding of the weak is the concession to fear.
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When ancient opinions and rules of life are taken away, the loss cannot possibly be estimated. From that moment, we have no compass to govern us, nor can we know distinctly to what port to steer.
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Nothing tends so much to the corruption of science as to suffer it to stagnate; these waters must be troubled before they can exert their virtues.
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It is better to cherish virtue and humanity, by leaving much to free will, even with some loss of the object , than to attempt to make men mere machines and instruments of political benevolence. The world on the whole will gain by a liberty, without which virtue cannot exist.
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Early and provident fear is the mother of safety.
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My vigour relents. I pardon something to the spirit of liberty.
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Liberty, without wisdom, is license.
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Make the Revolution a parent of settlement, and not a nursery of future revolutions.
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Vice itself lost half its evil, by losing all its grossness.