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 years wish
The public interest requires doing today those things that men of intelligence and good will would wish, five or ten years hence, had been done.
god eye
To be struck with His power, it is only necessary to open our eyes.
mean survival reform
A nation without means of reform is without means of survival.
parliament bristol members
Parliament is a deliberative assembly of one nation.You choose a Member indeed; but when you have chosen him, heisnotthe Member for Bristol, but heisa Member of Parliament.
religious men animal
Man is by his constitution a religious animal; atheism is against not only our reason, but our instincts.
men law support
The power of discretionary disqualification by one law of Parliament, and the necessity of paying every debt of the Civil List by another law of Parliament, if suffered to pass unnoticed, must establish such a fund of rewards and terrors as will make Parliament the best appendage and support of arbitrary power that ever was invented by the wit of man.
Nothing less will content me, than wholeAmerica.
may definitions littles
A definition may be very exact, and yet go but a very little way towards informing us of the nature of the thing defined.
country talent revolt
Jacobinism is the revolt of the enterprising talents of a country against its property.
practice evil may
A thing may look specious in theory, and yet be ruinous in practice; a thing may look evil in theory, and yet be in practice excellent.
kings gentleman may
Somebody has said, that a king may make a nobleman but he cannot make a gentleman.
effort election decline
I decline the election. It has ever been my rule through life, to observe a proportion between my efforts and my objects. I have never been remarkable for a bold, active, and sanguine pursuit of advantages that are personal to myself.
matter engagement duty
Neither the few nor the many have a right to act merely by their will, in any matter connected with duty, trust, engagement, or obligation.
voice crafts reason
Between craft and credulity, the voice of reason is stifled.