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
people darkness succeed
All the forces of darkness need to succeed ... is for the people to do nothing.
party men body
Party is a body of men united, for promoting by their joint endeavours the national interest, upon some particular principle in which they are all agreed.
truth exercise men
Falsehood and delusion are allowed in no case whatever; but, as in the exercise of all the virtues, there is an economy of truth. It is a sort of temperance, by which a man speaks truth with measure, that he may speak it the longer.
religious cheer volcanoes
Old religious factions are volcanoes burned out; on the lava and ashes and squalid scoriae of old eruptions grow the peaceful olive, the cheering vine and the sustaining corn.
wise men mad
Oppression makes wise men mad; but the distemper is still the madness of the wise, which is better than the sobriety of fools.
eye men injustice-and-oppression
The poorest being that crawls on earth, contending to save itself from injustice and oppression, is an object respectable in the eyes of God and man.
party government tables
The parties are the gamesters; but government keeps the table, and is sure to be the winner in the end.
kind pleasure
Pleasure of every kind quickly satisfies.
art powerful passion
Poetry, with all its obscurity, has a more general as well as a more powerful dominion over the passions than the art of painting.
art men prejudice
Prejudice renders a man's virtue his habit, and a series of unconnected arts. Though just prejudice, his duty becomes a part of his nature.
moving fall race
By the disposition of a stupendous wisdom, moulding together the great mysterious incorporation of the human race, the whole, at one time, is never old, or middle-aged, or young; but, in a condition of unchangeable constancy, moves on through the varied tenor of perpetual decay, fall, renovation, and progression.
imitation acquire
It is by imitation, far more than by precept, that we learn everything; and what we learn thus, we acquire not only more effectually, but more pleasantly.
despair doe circumstances
There are circumstances in which despair does not imply inactivity.
mean evil regulation
Taste and elegance, though they are reckoned only among the smaller and secondary morals, yet are of no mean importance in the regulations of life. A moral taste is not of force to turn vice into virtue; but it recommends virtue with something like the blandishments of pleasure, and it infinitely abates the evils of vice.