61 quotes by Edmund Burke

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A disposition to preserve, and an ability to improve, taken together, would be my standard of a statesman.

Politics

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A nation is not conquered which is perpetually to be conquered.

Nations

4.0 · 27 votes · 198 reads

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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.

America

3.0 · 53 votes

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A state without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation.

Change

4.9 · 58 votes · 177 reads

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Ambition can creep as well as soar.

Ambition

4.7 · 34 votes

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Defects
Among a people generally corrupt, liberty cannot long exist.
3.8 · 49 votes · 92 reads
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Government and Politics
Bad laws are the worst form of tyranny.
3.3 · 24 votes · 157 reads
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Virtues
By gnawing through a dike, even a rat may drown a nation.
3.4 · 18 votes · 103 reads
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Government and Politics
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.
4.2 · 17 votes · 28 reads
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Various
Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other
3.5 · 44 votes · 93 reads
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Various
Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver.
4.0 · 56 votes · 125 reads
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Society
Frugality is founded on the principal that all riches have limits.
4.8 · 55 votes · 83 reads
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Virtues
Great men are the guideposts and landmarks in the state.
3.8 · 46 votes · 11 reads
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Various
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.
4.5 · 7 votes · 200 reads
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Virtues
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
4.3 · 50 votes · 23 reads
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Various
If the people are happy, united, wealthy, and powerful, we presume the rest. We conclude that to be good from whence good is derived.
4.8 · 27 votes · 192 reads
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Society
If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free. If our wealth commands us, we are poor indeed.
4.1 · 52 votes · 145 reads
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Government and Politics
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.
3.0 · 24 votes · 198 reads
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Various
It is a general popular error to suppose the loudest complainers for the public to be the most anxious for its welfare.
3.7 · 58 votes · 82 reads
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Society
It is the interest of the commercial world that wealth should be found everywhere.
4.5 · 50 votes · 107 reads
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Various
It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact.
4.6 · 22 votes · 194 reads
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Society
It is, generally, in the season of prosperity that men discover their real temper, principles, and designs.
4.6 · 11 votes · 112 reads
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Government and Politics
Laws, like houses, lean on one another.
4.9 · 38 votes · 40 reads
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Society
Liberty must be limited in order to be possessed.
3.5 · 63 votes · 45 reads
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Government and Politics
Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom; and a great empire and little minds go ill together.
4.2 · 5 votes · 143 reads
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Various
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.
4.7 · 42 votes · 182 reads
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Society
Mere parsimony is not economy. Expense, and great expense, may be an essential part in true economy.
3.3 · 27 votes · 70 reads
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Thought and Reason
Never despair, but if you do, work on in despair.
4.0 · 20 votes · 161 reads
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Feelings
No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.
3.6 · 54 votes · 108 reads
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Government and Politics
Nobility is a graceful ornament to the civil order. It is the Corinthian capital of polished society.
3.4 · 24 votes · 85 reads
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Government and Politics
Nothing turns out to be so oppressive and unjust as a feeble government.
4.5 · 33 votes · 125 reads
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Virtues
Our patience will achieve more than our force.
4.2 · 10 votes · 103 reads
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Society
Passion for fame: A passion which is the instinct of all great souls.
5.0 · 57 votes · 175 reads
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Virtues
Patience will achieve more than force.
4.6 · 10 votes · 137 reads
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Government and Politics
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.
4.5 · 6 votes · 142 reads
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Various
People must be taken as they are, and we should never try make them or ourselves better by quarreling with them.
4.6 · 37 votes · 147 reads
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Time
People will not look forward to posterity who will not look backward to their ancestors.
5.0 · 34 votes · 142 reads
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Countries
Spain: A whale stranded upon the coast of Europe.
3.4 · 23 votes · 76 reads
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Various
Superstition is the religion of feeble minds.
3.9 · 53 votes · 180 reads
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Society
Taxing is an easy business. Any projector can contrive new compositions, any bungler can add to the old.
3.8 · 17 votes · 7 reads
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Time
The arrogance of age must submit to be taught by youth.
4.9 · 17 votes · 115 reads
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Society
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.
3.7 · 14 votes · 97 reads
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Virtues
The first and simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind, is curiosity.
4.2 · 37 votes · 28 reads
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Virtues
The great must submit to the dominion of prudence and of virtue, or none will long submit to the dominion of the great.
3.5 · 52 votes · 156 reads
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Thought and Reason
The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
3.9 · 57 votes · 198 reads
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