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
ideas drawing justice
It looks to me to be narrow and pedantic to apply the ordinary ideas of criminal justice to this great public contest. I do not know the method of drawing up an indictment against a whole people.
justice discipline world
Restraint and discipline and examples of virtue and justice. These are the things that form the education of the world.
law justice mystery
A good parson once said that where mystery begins religion ends. Cannot I say, as truly at least, of human laws, that where mystery begins justice ends?
law justice judging
All human laws are, properly speaking, only declaratory; they have no power over the substance of original justice.
justice trade free-trade
Free trade is not based on utility but on justice.
freedom justice liberty
Whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither, in my opinion, is safe.
law justice humanity
It is not what a lawyer tells me I may do; but what humanity, reason, and justice tell me I ought to do.
lying justice abortion
Justice is itself the great standing policy of civil society; and any eminent departure from it, under any circumstances, lies under the suspicion of being no policy at all.
generous nature suffered wise
Through a wise and salutary neglect, a generous nature has been suffered to take her own way to perfection.
ceases limit
There is a limit at which forbearance ceases to be a virtue.
believe men hands
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.
jobs exercise office
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.
art partnership born
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.
pain real delight
I am convinced that we have a degree of delight, and that no small one, in the real misfortunes and pain of others