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Edmund Burke Quotes

Edmund Burke

British political writer

Nationality: Irish-British
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Birth: 1729-1797
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Ambition can creep as well as soar.
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A people who are still, as it were, but in the gristle, and not yet hardened into the bone of manhood.
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Young man, there is America, which at this day serves for little more than to amuse you with stories of savage men and uncouth manners.
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Nobility is a graceful ornament to the civil order. It is the Corinthian capital of polished society.
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It is the interest of the commercial world that wealth should be found everywhere.
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A state without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation.
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We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.
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It is a general popular error to suppose the loudest complainers for the public to be the most anxious for its welfare.
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Among a people generally corrupt, liberty cannot long exist.
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I thought ten thousand swords must have leaped from their scabbards to avenge even a look that threatened her with insult. But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophists, economists and calculators has succeeded; and the glory of Europe is gone forever
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The first and simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind, is curiosity.
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Never despair, but if you do, work on in despair.
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Mere parsimony is not economy. Expense, and great expense, may be an essential part in true economy.
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Frugality is founded on the principal that all riches have limits.
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When the leaders choose to make themselves bidders at an auction of popularity, their talents, in the construction of the state, will be of no service. They will become flatterers instead of legislators; the instruments, not the guides, of the people.
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The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
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Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other
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It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact.
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Passion for fame: A passion which is the instinct of all great souls.
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No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.
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Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver.
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When ever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither is safe.
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Nothing turns out to be so oppressive and unjust as a feeble government.
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The great must submit to the dominion of prudence and of virtue, or none will long submit to the dominion of the great.
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Great men are the guideposts and landmarks in the state.
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People will not look forward to posterity who will not look backward to their ancestors.
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People crushed by laws, have no hope but to evade power. If the laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to the law; and those who have must to hope and nothing to lose will always be dangerous.
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There is but one law for all, namely that law which governs all law, the law of our Creator, the law of humanity, justice, equity - the law of nature and of nations.
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In effect, to follow, not to force the public inclination; to give a direction, a form, a technical dress, and a specific sanction, to the general sense of the community, is the true end of legislature.
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Bad laws are the worst form of tyranny.
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Laws, like houses, lean on one another.
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The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedience, and by parts.
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The people never give up their liberties, but under some delusion.
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Liberty must be limited in order to be possessed.
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The effect of liberty to individuals is that they may do what they please: we ought to see what it will please them to do, before we risk congratulations.
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Manners are of more importance than laws. Manners are what vex or soothe, corrupt or purify, exalt or debase, barbarize or refine us, by a constant, steady, uniform, insensible operation, like that of the air we breathe in.
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Spain: A whale stranded upon the coast of Europe.
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A nation is not conquered which is perpetually to be conquered.
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Our patience will achieve more than our force.
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Patience will achieve more than force.
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To make us love our country, our country ought to be lovely.
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If the people are happy, united, wealthy, and powerful, we presume the rest. We conclude that to be good from whence good is derived.
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By gnawing through a dike, even a rat may drown a nation.
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I have never yet seen any plan which has not been mended by the observations of those who were much inferior in understanding to the person who took the lead in the business.
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You can never plan the future by the past.
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Circumstances give in reality to every political principle its distinguishing color and discriminating effect. The circumstances are what render every civil and political scheme beneficial or noxious to mankind.
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A disposition to preserve, and an ability to improve, taken together, would be my standard of a statesman.
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Your representative owes you, not his industry only, but his judgment; and he betrays instead of serving you if he sacrifices it to your opinion.
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Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom; and a great empire and little minds go ill together.
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People must be taken as they are, and we should never try make them or ourselves better by quarreling with them.
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When ancient opinions and rules of life are taken away, the loss cannot possibly be estimated. From that moment, we have no compass to govern us, nor can we know distinctly to what port to steer.
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Whilst shame keeps its watch, virtue is not wholly extinguished in the heart; nor will moderation be utterly exiled from the minds of tyrants.
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Superstition is the religion of feeble minds.
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Taxing is an easy business. Any projector can contrive new compositions, any bungler can add to the old.
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To tax and to please, no more than to love and to be wise, is not given to men.
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Toleration is good for all, or it is good for none.
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There is a limit at which forbearance ceases to be a virtue.
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The yielding of the weak is the concession to fear.
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It is, generally, in the season of prosperity that men discover their real temper, principles, and designs.
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If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free. If our wealth commands us, we are poor indeed.
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The arrogance of age must submit to be taught by youth.
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