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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The most favourable laws can do very little towards the happiness of people when the disposition of the ruling power is adverse to them.
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It has all the contortions of the sibyl without the inspiration.
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The use of force alone is but temporary. It may subdue for a moment; but it does not remove the necessity of subduing again; and a nation is not governed, which is perpetually to be conquered.
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As the rose-tree is composed of the sweetest flowers and the sharpest thorns, as the heavens are sometimes overcast—alternately tempestuous and serene—so is the life of man intermingled with hopes and fears, with joys and sorrows, with pleasure and pain.
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The perfection of conversation is not to play a regular sonata, but, like the AEolian harp, to await the inspiration of the passing breeze.
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No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.
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If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free; if our wealth commands us, we are poor indeed.
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By gnawing through a dike, even a rat may drown a nation.
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He that struggles with us strengthens our nerves, and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper.
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Slavery is a weed that grows on every soil.
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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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Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation.
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Superstition is the religion of feeble minds.
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People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors.