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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The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.
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Freedom and not servitude is the cure of anarchy; as religion, and not atheism, is the true remedy of superstition.
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Depend upon it that the lovers of freedom will be free.
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Laws, like houses, lean on one another.
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To prove that the Americans ought not to be free, we are obliged to deprecate the value of freedom itself.
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In a free country every man thinks he has a concern in all public matters,--that he has a right to form and a right to deliver an opinion on them. This it is that fills countries with men of ability in all stations.
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Free trade is not based on utility but on justice.
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In a democracy, the majority of the citizens is capable of exercising the most cruel oppressions upon the minority.
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Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny.
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Whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither, in my opinion, is safe.
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The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion.
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If any ask me what a free government is, I answer, that for any practical purpose, it is what the people think so.
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I know that many have been taught to think that moderation, in a case like this, is a sort of treason
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Society is indeed a contract. It is a partnership in all science; a partnership in all art; a partnership in every virtue, and in all perfection. As the ends of such a partnership cannot be obtained in many generations, it becomes a partnership not only between those who are living, but between those who are living, those who are dead, and those who are to be born.