Quotes by Edmund Burke

Edmund Burke

Edmund Burke

English politician and philosopher

Lived from: 1729 - 1797

Category: Politics | Philosophers Country: FlagUnited Kingdom

Born: 12 january 1729 Died: 9 july 1797

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  • Nothing turns out to be so oppressive and unjust as a feeble government.
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  • One that confounds good and evil is an enemy to good.
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  • Our patience will achieve more than our force.
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  • Patience will achieve more than force.
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  • People crushed by laws, have no hope but to evade power. If the laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to the law; and those who have must to hope and nothing to lose will always be dangerous.
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  • People must be taken as they are, and we should never try make them or ourselves better by quarreling with them.
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  • People will not look forward to posterity who will not look backward to their ancestors.
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  • Restraint and discipline and examples of virtue and justice. These are the things that form the education of the world.
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  • Slavery is a weed that grows on every soil.
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  • Slavery they can have anywhere. It is a weed that grows in evers' soil.
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  • Spain: A whale stranded upon the coast of Europe.
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  • Superstition is the religion of feeble minds.
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  • Taxing is an easy business. Any projector can contrive new compositions, any bungler can add to the old.
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  • The arrogance of age must submit to be taught by youth.
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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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  • The first and simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind, is curiosity.
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  • The great must submit to the dominion of prudence and of virtue, or none will long submit to the dominion of the great.
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  • The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.
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  • The march of the human mind is slow.
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  • The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
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