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
emotional curiosity mind
The first and simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind, is curiosity.
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Among a people generally corrupt liberty cannot long exist.
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When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.
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Ambition can creep as well as soar.
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The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedience, and by parts.
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Whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither, in my opinion, is safe.
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Politics and the pulpit are terms that have little agreement.
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Prudence is not only the first in rank of the virtues political and moral, but she is the director and regulator, the standard of them all.
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Superstition is the religion of feeble minds.
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History is a pact between the dead, the living, and the yet unborn.
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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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The hottest fires in hell are reserved for those who remain neutral in times of moral crisis.
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The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion.
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But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded; and the glory of Europe is extinguished forever.