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
government unjust oppressive-governments
Nothing turns out to be so oppressive and unjust as a feeble government.
ask free government people practical
If any ask me what a free government is, I answer, that for any practical purpose, it is what the people think so.
thinking government judging
If any ask me what a free government is, I answer, that, for any practical purpose, it is what the people think so,and that they, and not I, are the natural, lawful, and competent judges of this matter.
government people purpose
No government ought to exist for the purpose of checking the prosperity of its people or to allow such a principle in its policy.
inspirational government doe
The use of force alone is but temporary. It may subdue for a moment; but it does not remove the necessity of subduing again; and a nation is not governed, which is perpetually to be conquered.
government want humans
Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants.
power government law
People crushed by law, have no hopes but from power. If laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to laws; and those who have much hope and nothing to lose, will always be dangerous.
hands government-welfare scarcity
And having looked to Government for bread, on the very first scarcity they will turn and bite the hand that fed them.
law government anarchy
Whenever government abandons law, it proclaims anarchy.
party government tables
The parties are the gamesters; but government keeps the table, and is sure to be the winner in the end.
mean government views
Refined policy ever has been the parent of confusion, and ever will be so as long as the world endures. Plain good intention, which is as easily discovered at the first view as fraud is surely detected at last, is of no mean force in the government of mankind.
government compromise banter
All government is founded on compromise and banter.
honesty government giving
All writers on the science of policy are agreed, and they agree with experience, that all governments must frequently infringe the rules of justice to support themselves; that truth must give way to dissimulation, honesty to convenience, and humanity itself to the reigning of interest. The whole of this mystery of iniquity is called the reason of state.
exercise government mind
Government is the exercise of all the great qualities of the human mind.