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
power mind politics
Power gradually extirpates for the mind every humane and gentle virtue.
ambition power may
Among precautions against ambition, it may not be amiss to take precautions against our own. I must fairly say, I dread our own power and our own ambition: I dread our being too much dreaded.
mean power politics
All wealth is power, so power must infallibly draw wealth to itself by some means or other.
power sublime modification
I know of nothing sublime which is not some modification of power.
letting-go powerful reflection
To give freedom is still more easy. It is not necessary to guide; it only requires to let go the rein. But to form a free government; that is, to temper together these opposite elements of liberty and restraint in one work, requires much thought, deep reflection, a sagacious, powerful, and combining mind.
powerful people be-good
If the people are happy, united, wealthy, and powerful, we presume the rest. We conclude that to be good from whence good is derived.
power government law
People crushed by law, have no hopes but from power. If laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to laws; and those who have much hope and nothing to lose, will always be dangerous.
power hands guilty
Power, in whatever hands, is rarely guilty of too strict limitations on itself.
character men power
Nothing, indeed, but the possession of some power can with any certainty discover what at the bottom is the true character of any man.
power law enmity
Law and arbitrary power are at eternal enmity.
art powerful passion
Poetry, with all its obscurity, has a more general as well as a more powerful dominion over the passions than the art of painting.
responsibility power agreement
To govern according to the sense and agreement of the interests of the people is a great and glorious object of governance. This object cannot be obtained but through the medium of popular election, and popular election is a mighty evil.
power men world
The great inlet by which a colour for oppression has entered into the world is by one man's pretending to determine concerning the happiness of another.
powerful causes enthusiasm
Religion is among the most powerful causes of enthusiasm.