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
errors liberty complaining
It is a general popular error to suppose the loudest complainers for the public to be the most anxious for its welfare.
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All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter.
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The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedience, and by parts.
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Hypocrisy can afford to be magnificent in its promises, for never intending to go beyond promise, it costs nothing.
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Politics and the pulpit are terms that have little agreement.
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Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other.
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You can never plan the future by the past.
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The first and simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind, is curiosity.
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We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.
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History is a pact between the dead, the living, and the yet unborn.
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Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones.
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To make us love our country, our country ought to be lovely.
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It is not what a lawyer tells me I may do; but what humanity, reason, and justice tell me I ought to do.
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Your representative owes you, not his industry only, but his judgment; and he betrays instead of serving you if he sacrifices it to your opinion.