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
heart healing simplicity
Genuine simplicity of heart is a healing and cementing principle.
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.
army attachment government
It is the love of the people; it is their attachment to their government, from the sense of the deep stake they have in such a glorious institution, which gives you your army 168 and your navy, and infuses into both that liberal obedience, without which your army would be a base rabble, and your navy nothing but rotten timber.
government people form
In all forms of government the people is the true legislator.
men too-much masters
Too much idleness, I have observed, fills up a man's time more completely and leaves him less his own master, than any sort of employment whatsoever
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.
interesting politics ancestry
The power of perpetuating our property in our families is one of the most valuable and interesting circumstances belonging to it, and that which tends the most to the perpetuation of society itself.
men mad wicked
God has sometimes converted wickedness into madness; and it is to the credit of human reason that men who are not in some degree mad are never capable of being in the highest degree wicked.
Nothing less will content me, than wholeAmerica.
perfection religion world
The body of all true religion consists, to be sure, in obedience to the will of the Sovereign of the world, in a confidence in His declarations, and in imitation of His perfections.
years evil half
Rage and frenzy will pull down more in half an hour than prudence, deliberation, and foresight can build up in a hundred years.
abuse protection reverence
There is a time when the hoary head of inveterate abuse will neither draw reverence nor obtain protection.
men mind may
Contempt is not a thing to be despised. It may be borne with a calm and equal mind, but no man, by lifting his head high, can pretend that he does not perceive the scorns that are poured down on him from above.
independent decree tribunals
The tribunal of conscience exists independent of edicts and decrees.