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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Men are qualified for civil liberty in exact proportion to their disposition to put moral chains upon their own appetites…in proportion as they are more disposed to listen to the counsels of the wise and good, in preference to the flattery of knaves. Society cannot exist, unless a controlling power upon will and appetite be placed somewhere; and the less of it there is within, the more there must be without. It is ordained in the eternal constitution of things, that men of intemperate minds cannot be free. Their passions forge their fetters.
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Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.
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Our patience will achieve more than our force.
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People must be taken as they are, and we should never try make them or ourselves better by quarreling with them.
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All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter.
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All men have equal rights, but not to equal things.
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But what is liberty without wisdom, and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils; for it is folly, vice, and madness, without tuition or restraint.
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Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation.
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Good order is the foundation of all things.
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There is a boundary to men's passions when they act from feelings; but none when they are under the influence of imagination.
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Manners are of more importance than laws. Manners are what vex or soothe, corrupt or purify, exalt or debase, barbarize or refine us, by a constant, steady, uniform, insensible operation, like that of the air we breathe.
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All that needs to be done for evil to prevail is good men doing nothing.
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Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones.
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Facts are to the mind what food is to the body.