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
men history way
I find along with many virtues in my countrymen there is a jealousy, a soreness, and readiness to take offence, as if they were the most helpless and impotent of mankind, and yet a violence... and a boistrousness in their resentment, as if they had been puffed up with the highest prosperity and power. they will not only be served, but it must also be in their own way and on their own principles and even in words and language that they liked... which renders it very difficult for a plain unguarded man as I am to have anything to do with them or their affairs.
history together care
England and Ireland may flourish together. The world is large enough for both of us. Let it be our care not to make ourselves too little for it.
jealous history world
When slavery is established in any part of the world, those who are free are by far the most proud and jealous of their freedom.
curiosity mind novelty
Some degree of novelty must be one of the materials in almost every instrument which works upon the mind; and curiosity blends itself, more or less, with all our pleasures.
wisdom ancestor
The wisdom of our ancestors.
taken men rights
This sort of people are so taken up with their theories about the rights of man that they have totally forgotten his nature.
two political may
Where two motives, neither of them perfectly justifiable, may be assigned, the worst has the chance of being preferred.
struggle political world
You had that action and counteraction which, in the natural and in the political world, from the reciprocal struggle of discordant powers draws out the harmony of the universe.
heart tyrants political
Many of the greatest tyrants on the records of history have begun their reigns in the fairest manner. But the truth is, this unnatural power corrupts both the heart and the understanding.
life caution circumspection
Circumspection and caution are part of wisdom.
men views goal
When a great man has some one object in view to be achieved in a given time, it may be absolutely necessary for him to walk out of all the common roads.
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Freedom and not servitude is the cure of anarchy; as religion, and not atheism, is the true remedy of superstition.
liberty society appetite
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.
men people charm
Not men but measures a sort of charm by which many people get loose from every honorable engagement.