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
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Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver.
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Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny.
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Silence is golden but when it threatens your freedom it's yellow.
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Slavery is a weed that grows on every soil.
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To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
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Hypocrisy can afford to be magnificent in its promises, for never intending to go beyond promise, it costs nothing.
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You can never plan the future by the past.
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We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.
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The first and simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind, is curiosity.
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Among a people generally corrupt liberty cannot long exist.
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When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.
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Ambition can creep as well as soar.
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The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedience, and by parts.
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Whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither, in my opinion, is safe.