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
business ambition creeps
Ambition can creep as well as soar.
wisdom giving-up freedom
The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion.
equality men rights
All men have equal rights, but not to equal things.
relationship taken people
People must be taken as they are, and we should never try make them or ourselves better by quarreling with them.
inspirational life art
Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation.
indifference
Nothing is so fatal to religion as indifference.
people long political
Among a people generally corrupt liberty cannot long exist.
lying justice abortion
Justice is itself the great standing policy of civil society; and any eminent departure from it, under any circumstances, lies under the suspicion of being no policy at all.
inspirational mind religion
Superstition is the religion of feeble minds.
independent men law
Religion, to have any force upon men's understandings,--indeed, to exist at all,--must be supposed paramount to law, and independent for its substance upon any human institution, else it would be the absurdest thing in the world,--an acknowledged cheat.
inspirational family memories
People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors.
country war men
To be attached to the subdivision, to love the little platoon we belong to in society, is the first principle (the germ as it were) of public affections. It is the first link in the series by which we proceed toward a love to our country and to mankind. The interest of that portion of social arrangement is a trust in the hands of all those who compose it; and as none but bad men would justify it in abuse, none but traitors would barter it away for their own personal advantage.
wisdom evil liberty
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.
inspirational patience virtue
Our patience will achieve more than our force.