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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Freedom and not servitude is the cure of anarchy; as religion, and not atheism, is the true remedy of superstition.
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Depend upon it that the lovers of freedom will be free.
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Laws, like houses, lean on one another.
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To prove that the Americans ought not to be free, we are obliged to deprecate the value of freedom itself.
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In a free country every man thinks he has a concern in all public matters,--that he has a right to form and a right to deliver an opinion on them. This it is that fills countries with men of ability in all stations.
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Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny.
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Whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither, in my opinion, is safe.
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The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion.
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Through a wise and salutary neglect, a generous nature has been suffered to take her own way to perfection.
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There is a limit at which forbearance ceases to be a virtue.
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All that is necessary for evil to succeed is for good men to do nothing as they must if they believe they can do nothing. There is nothing worse because the council of despair is declaration of irresponsibility; it is Pilate washing his hands.
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In their nomination to office they will not appoint to the exercise of authority as to a pitiful job, but as to a holy function.
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Art is a partnership not only between those who are living but between those who are dead and those who are yet to be born.
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I am convinced that we have a degree of delight, and that no small one, in the real misfortunes and pain of others