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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Good order is the foundation of all things.
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Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.
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Men are qualified for civil liberty in exact proportion to their disposition to put moral chains upon their own appetites…in proportion as they are more disposed to listen to the counsels of the wise and good, in preference to the flattery of knaves. Society cannot exist, unless a controlling power upon will and appetite be placed somewhere; and the less of it there is within, the more there must be without. It is ordained in the eternal constitution of things, that men of intemperate minds cannot be free. Their passions forge their fetters.
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Those who don't know history are destined to repeat it.
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Kings will be tyrants from policy, when subjects are rebels from principle.
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The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
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The only infallible criterion of wisdom to vulgar judgments - success
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To please universally was the object of his life; but to tax and to please, no more than to love and to be wise, is not given to men
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Through a wise and salutary neglect, a generous nature has been suffered to take her own way to perfection.
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It is a general error to suppose the loudest complainers for the public to be the most anxious for its welfare
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Young man, there is America, which at this day serves for little more than to amuse you with stories of savage men and uncouth manners.
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A very good part of the mischief that vex the world arises from words
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Some decent, regulated preeminence, some preference given to birth, is neither unnatural nor unjust nor impolite
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So to be patriots as not to forget that we are gentlemen.