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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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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Better to be despised for too anxious apprehensions, than be ruined by too confident a security
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A state without some means of change is without the means of its conservation
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Nothing turns out to be so oppressive and unjust as a feeble government.
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Whilst shame keeps its watch, virtue is not wholly extinguished in the heart