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
exercise names excess
The whole compass of the language is tried to find sinonimies [synonyms] and circumlocutions for massacres and murder. Things never called by their common names. Massacre is sometimes called agitation, sometimes effervescence, sometimes excess sometimes too continued an exercise of revolutionary power.
numbers imagination shadow
Because half a dozen grasshoppers under a fern make the field ring with their importunate chink, whilst thousands of great cattle, reposed beneath the shadow of the British oak, chew the cud and are silent, pray, to not imagine that those who make the noise are the only inhabitants of the field; that, of course, they are many in number; or that, after all, they are other than the little, shriveled, meagre, hopping, though loud and troublesome insects of the hour.
levels
Those who attempt to level never equalize
mean world moral
There is nothing that God has judged good for us that He has not given us the means to accomplish, both in the natural and the moral world.
sacrifice should toleration
I take toleration to be a part of religion. I do not know which I would sacrifice; I would keep them both: it is not necessary that I should sacrifice either.
men evil good-man
Evil succeeds when good men do nothing
wisdom may wells
In such a strait the wisest may well be perplexed and the boldest staggered.
hope gentleman desire
The worthy gentleman who has been snatched from us at the moment of the election, and in the middle of the contest, whilst his desires were as warm and his hopes as eager as ours, has feelingly told us what shadows we are, and what shadows we pursue.
mean power politics
All wealth is power, so power must infallibly draw wealth to itself by some means or other.
inspiration
It has all the contortions of the sibyl without the inspiration.
responsibility prison crime
Responsibility prevents crimes.
ambition thinking abuse
I dread our own power and our own ambition; I dread our being too much dreaded....We may say that we shall not abuse this astonishing and hitherto unheard-of-power. But every other nation will think we shall abuse it. It is impossible but that, sooner or later, this state of things must produce a combination against us which may end in our ruin.
men stamps cant
Of this stamp is the cant of, Not men, but measures.
justice discipline world
Restraint and discipline and examples of virtue and justice. These are the things that form the education of the world.