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
learning casts multitudes
Learning will be cast into the mire and trodden down under the hoofs of a swinish multitude.
christian healing voice
No sound ought to be heard in the church but the healing voice of Christian charity.
wise business bears
Taxing is an easy business. Any projector can contrive new impositions; any bungler can add to the old; but is it altogether wise to have no other bounds to your impositions than the patience of those who are to bear them?
curiosity mind novelty
Some degree of novelty must be one of the materials in almost every instrument which works upon the mind; and curiosity blends itself, more or less, with all our pleasures.
wisdom ancestor
The wisdom of our ancestors.
love doe weakness
Who can know her, and himself, and entertain much hope? Who can see and know such a creature, and not love her to distraction? She has all the softness that does not imply weakness... she is not made to be the admiration of everybody, but the happiness of one.
power mind politics
Power gradually extirpates for the mind every humane and gentle virtue.
life shadow pursue
What shadows we are, and what shadows we pursue!
inspirational law people
The most favourable laws can do very little towards the happiness of people when the disposition of the ruling power is adverse to them.
men confusion mind
Guilt was never a rational thing; it distorts all the faculties of the human mind, it perverts them, it leaves a man no longer in the free use of his reason, it puts him into confusion.
abuse protection reverence
There is a time when the hoary head of inveterate abuse will neither draw reverence nor obtain protection.
government principles moments
The moment that government appears at market, the principles of the market will be subverted.
despair duty
A speculative despair is unpardonable where it our duty to act.
mourning care way
The true way to mourn the dead is to take care of the living who belong to them.