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
religious atheism zealous
Religious persecution may shield itself under the guise of a mistaken and over-zealous piety.
war long people
I venture to say no war can be long carried on against the will of the people.
religious men animal
Man is by his constitution a religious animal.
men mind vices
Vice incapacitates a man from all public duty; it withers the powers of his under- standing, and makes his mind paralytic.
law justice humanity
It is not what a lawyer tells me I may do; but what humanity, reason, and justice tell me I ought to do.
distance snuff breeze
They [Americans] augur misgovernment at a distance and snuff the approach of tyranny in every tainted breeze.
forgiving adultery murder
Society can overlook murder, adultery or swindling; it never forgives preaching of a new gospel.
mind together politics
Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom; and a great empire and little minds go ill together.
evil enemy good-and-evil
One that confounds good and evil is an enemy to good.
art poetry shadow
Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows, and of lending existence to nothing.
important revolution moral
The most important of all revolutions, a revolution in sentiments, manners and moral opinions.
time arrogance-of-youth age
The arrogance of age must submit to be taught by youth.
limits riches frugality
Frugality is founded on the principal that all riches have limits.
powerful people be-good
If the people are happy, united, wealthy, and powerful, we presume the rest. We conclude that to be good from whence good is derived.