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
heart keeps shame virtue whilst wholly
Whilst shame keeps its watch, virtue is not wholly extinguished in the heart
exalted general opinion paper virtue
I have in general no very exalted opinion of the virtue of paper government.
may virtue wells
If you can be well without health, you may be happy without virtue.
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Economy is a distributive virtue, and consists not in saving but selection. Parsimony requires no providence, no sagacity, no powers of combination, no comparison, no judgment.
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To speak of atrocious crimes in mild language is treason to virtue.
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That cardinal virtue, temperance.
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All virtue which is impracticable is spurious.
saving virtue economy
Economy is a distributive virtue, and consists not in saving but in selection.
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Our patience will achieve more than our force.
ceases limit virtue
There is, however, a limit at which forbearance ceases to be a virtue
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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
bullying freedom work
The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.
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Nothing turns out to be so oppressive and unjust as a feeble government.