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
people liberty spirit
That the greatest security of the people, against the encroachments and usurpations of their superiors, is to keep the Spirit of Liberty constantly awake, is an undeniable truth
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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.
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The effect of liberty to individuals is that they may do what they please: we ought to see what it will please them to do, before we risk congratulations.
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Liberty does not exist in the absence of morality.
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Liberty must be limited in order to be possessed.
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Abstract liberty, like other mere abstractions, is not to be found.
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My vigour relents. I pardon something to the spirit of liberty.
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Liberty, without wisdom, is license.
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They defend their errors as if they were defending their inheritance.
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The only liberty that is valuable is a liberty connected with order; that not only exists along with order and virtue, but which cannot exist at all without them. It inheres in good and steady government, as in its substance and vital principle.
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We must not always judge of the generality of the opinion by the noise of the acclamation.
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Whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither, in my opinion, is safe.
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It is a general popular error to suppose the loudest complainers for the public to be the most anxious for its welfare.
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The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedience, and by parts.