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
agreement political politics
Politics and the pulpit are terms that have little agreement.
political firsts directors
Prudence is not only the first in rank of the virtues political and moral, but she is the director and regulator, the standard of them all.
inspirational mind religion
Superstition is the religion of feeble minds.
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The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.
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History is a pact between the dead, the living, and the yet unborn.
errors liberty complaining
It is a general popular error to suppose the loudest complainers for the public to be the most anxious for its welfare.
motivational peace fire
The hottest fires in hell are reserved for those who remain neutral in times of moral crisis.
wisdom giving-up freedom
The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion.
birthday europe forever
But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded; and the glory of Europe is extinguished forever.
indifference
Nothing is so fatal to religion as indifference.
judging liberty noise
We must not always judge of the generality of the opinion by the noise of the acclamation.
love country patriotic
To make us love our country, our country ought to be lovely.
independent men law
Religion, to have any force upon men's understandings,--indeed, to exist at all,--must be supposed paramount to law, and independent for its substance upon any human institution, else it would be the absurdest thing in the world,--an acknowledged cheat.
errors liberty inheritance
They defend their errors as if they were defending their inheritance.