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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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.
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Our patience will achieve more than our force.
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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 hottest fires in hell are reserved for those who remain neutral in times of moral crisis.
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The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
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There is a limit at which forbearance ceases to be a virtue.
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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.
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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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It is one of the finest problems in legislation, what the state ought to take upon itself to direct and what it ought to leave, with as little interference as possible, to individual discretion
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It is hard to say whether the doctors of law or divinity have made the greater advances in the lucrative business of mystery.