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
above chains civil exact justice liberties love men moral proportion qualified
Men are qualified for civil liberties in exact proportion to their disposition to put moral chains upon their appetites: in proportion as their love of justice is above their rapacity
bad good men sacrifice struggle
When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall, one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle
believe men hands
All that is necessary for evil to succeed is for good men to do nothing as they must if they believe they can do nothing. There is nothing worse because the council of despair is declaration of irresponsibility; it is Pilate washing his hands.
fate men evil
The Fate of good men who refuse to become involved in politics is to be ruled by evil men.
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.
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.
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.
men people charm
Not men but measures a sort of charm by which many people get loose from every honorable engagement.
hate men political
By hating vices too much, they come to love men too little.
men empathy feelings
There are some men formed with feelings so blunt that they can hardly be said to be awake during the whole course of their lives.
leadership mean men
The men of England,- the men, I mean, of light and leading in England.
country men may
I cannot conceive how any man can have brought himself to that pitch of presumption, to consider his country as nothing but carte blanche, upon which he may scribble whatever he pleases.
real mean men
What is it we all seek for in an election? To answer its real purposes, you must first possess the means of knowing the fitness of your man; and then you must retain some hold upon him by personal obligation or dependence.
men giving way
Men who undertake considerable things, even in a regular way, ought to give us ground to presume ability.