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
men empathy feelings
There are some men formed with feelings so blunt that they can hardly be said to be awake during the whole course of their lives.
life caution circumspection
Circumspection and caution are part of wisdom.
country mind lovely
There ought to be system of manners in every nation which a well-formed mind would be disposed to relish. To make us love our country, our country ought to be lovely.
world vex arise
A very great part of the mischiefs that vex the world arises from words.
may virtue wells
If you can be well without health, you may be happy without virtue.
simple reality views
I cannot stand forward, and give praise or blame to any thing which relates to human actions, and human concerns, on a simple view of the subject as it stands stripped of every relation, in all the nakedness and solitude of metaphysical abstraction. Circumstances (which with some gentlemen pass for nothing) give in reality to every political principle its distinguishing colour, and discriminating effect. The circumstances are what render every civil and political scheme beneficial or noxious to mankind.
contempt despised
Contempt is not a thing to be despised.
drawing people method
I do not know the method of drawing up an indictment against a whole people.
perfect democracy world
A perfect democracy is therefore the most shameless thing in the world.
leadership mean men
The men of England,- the men, I mean, of light and leading in England.
men views goal
When a great man has some one object in view to be achieved in a given time, it may be absolutely necessary for him to walk out of all the common roads.
men people charm
Not men but measures a sort of charm by which many people get loose from every honorable engagement.
careful against-religion
The writers against religion, whilst they oppose every system, are wisely careful never to set up any of their own.
hope gentleman desire
The worthy gentleman who has been snatched from us at the moment of the election, and in the middle of the contest, whilst his desires were as warm and his hopes as eager as ours, has feelingly told us what shadows we are, and what shadows we pursue.