Edmund Burke
English politician and philosopher
Lived from: 1729 - 1797
Category: Politics | Philosophers Country: 
United Kingdom
Born: 12 january 1729 Died: 9 july 1797
Quotes 41 till 60 of 111.
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If you can be well without health, you may be happy without virtue.
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In effect, to follow, not to force the public inclination; to give a direction, a form, a technical dress, and a specific sanction, to the general sense of the community, is the true end of legislature.
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In the groves of their academy, at the end of every vista, you see nothing but the gallows.
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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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It is by imitation, far more than by precept, that we learn everything; and what we learn thus, we acquire not only more efficiently, but more pleasantly. This forms our manners, our opinions, our lives.
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It is the interest of the commercial world that wealth should be found everywhere.
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It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact.
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It is, generally, in the season of prosperity that men discover their real temper, principles, and designs.
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Kings will be tyrants from policy, when subjects are rebels from principle.
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Laws, like houses, lean on one another.
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Liberty must be limited in order to be possessed.
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Manners are of more importance than laws. Manners are what vex or soothe, corrupt or purify, exalt or debase, barbarize or refine us, by a constant, steady, uniform, insensible operation, like that of the air we breathe in.
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Men have no right to put the well-being of the present generation wholly out of the question. Perhaps the only moral trust with any certainty in our hands is the care of our own time.
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Mere parsimony is not economy. Expense, and great expense, may be an essential part in true economy.
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Never despair, but if you do, work on in despair.
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Never despair; but if you do, work on in despair.
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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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Nobility is a graceful ornament to the civil order. It is the Corinthian capital of polished society.
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Nobody made ??a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.
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Nothing is so fatal to religion as indifference.
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