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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Frugality is founded on the principle that all riches have limits
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A very good part of the mischief that vex the world arises from words
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I know that many have been taught to think that moderation, in a case like this, is a sort of treason
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Nobody makes a greater mistake than he who does nothing because he could only do a little
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Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants. Men have a right that these wants should be provided for by this wisdom.
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A nation without the means of reform is without the means of survival
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All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent.
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Better to be despised for too anxious apprehensions, than be ruined by too confident a security
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Those who have been intoxicated with power... can never willingly abandon it.
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If the grain were separated from the chaff, which fills the works of our national poets, what is truly valuable would be to what is useless in the proportion of a molehill to a mountain
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These gentle historians, on the contrary, dip their pens in nothing but the milk of human kindness.
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The tyranny of the multitude is a multiplied tyranny
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Some decent, regulated preeminence, some preference given to birth, is neither unnatural nor unjust nor impolite
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She is not made to be the admiration of all, but the happiness of one