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Edmund Burke [1729-1797] Irish

Edmund Burke was 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 parliament for many years in the House of Commons with the Whig Party.

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Quote	Tags	Rank
The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.	Good, Men	1
All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent.	Good	102
Those who don't know history are destined to repeat it.	History	103
Our patience will achieve more than our force.	Patience	104
When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.	Good, Men, Politics	105
The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.	Power	106
Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver.		107
To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.	Education	108
People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors.		109
Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.	Life	110
He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper.		111
A State without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation.	Change	112
Good order is the foundation of all things.	Brainy, Good	113
Frugality is founded on the principal that all riches have limits.		114
We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.	Change, Great, Nature	115
Under the pressure of the cares and sorrows of our mortal condition, men have at all times, and in all countries, called in some physical aid to their moral consolations - wine, beer, opium, brandy, or tobacco.	Men	116
When the leaders choose to make themselves bidders at an auction of popularity, their talents, in the construction of the state, will be of no service. They will become flatterers instead of legislators; the instruments, not the guides, of the people.		117
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 most to hope and nothing to lose will always be dangerous.	Hope, Legal, Power	118
It is not what a lawyer tells me I may do; but what humanity, reason, and justice tell me I ought to do.	Legal	119
You can never plan the future by the past.	Future	120
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.		121
Education is the cheap defense of nations.	Education	122
The arrogance of age must submit to be taught by youth.	Age	123
The first and simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind, is curiosity.		124
In a democracy, the majority of the citizens is capable of exercising the most cruel oppressions upon the minority.		125
Hypocrisy can afford to be magnificent in its promises, for never intending to go beyond promise, it costs nothing.		126
But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded; and the glory of Europe is extinguished forever.	Age	201
But what is liberty without wisdom, and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils; for it is folly, vice, and madness, without tuition or restraint.	Freedom, Wisdom	202
Beauty in distress is much the most affecting beauty.	Beauty	203
A spirit of innovation is generally the result of a selfish temper and confined views. People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors.		204
It is ordained in the eternal constitution of things, that men of intemperate minds cannot be free. Their passions forge their fetters.	Men	205
The person who grieves suffers his passion to grow upon him; he indulges it, he loves it; but this never happens in the case of actual pain, which no man ever willingly endured for any considerable time.		206
Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation.	Art, Religion	207
Society can overlook murder, adultery or swindling; it never forgives preaching of a new gospel.	Society	208
Beauty is the promise of happiness.	Beauty, Happiness	209
It is a general popular error to suppose the loudest complainers for the public to be the most anxious for its welfare.		210
If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free; if our wealth commands us, we are poor indeed.	Money	211
Mere parsimony is not economy. Expense, and great expense, may be an essential part in true economy.		212
Ambition can creep as well as soar.		213
There is but one law for all, namely that law which governs all law, the law of our Creator, the law of humanity, justice, equity - the law of nature and of nations.	Legal, Nature	214
To make us love our country, our country ought to be lovely.		215
Circumstances give in reality to every political principle its distinguishing color and discriminating effect. The circumstances are what render every civil and political scheme beneficial or noxious to mankind.		216
Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom; and a great empire and little minds go ill together.	Politics, Wisdom	217
Slavery is a weed that grows on every soil.		218
What ever disunites man from God, also disunites man from man.	God	219
One that confounds good and evil is an enemy to good.		220
He that struggles with us strengthens our nerves, and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper.		221
The most important of all revolutions, a revolution in sentiments, manners and moral opinions.		222
Your representative owes you, not his industry only, but his judgment; and he betrays instead of serving you if he sacrifices it to your opinion.		223
Facts are to the mind what food is to the body.	Food	224
Whenever our neighbour's house is on fire, it cannot be amiss for the engines to play a little on our own.		225
Nothing turns out to be so oppressive and unjust as a feeble government.	Government	226
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.	Legal, Society	301
Superstition is the religion of feeble minds.	Religion	302
Never despair, but if you do, work on in despair.	Moving On	303
Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny.	Legal	304
Among a people generally corrupt liberty cannot long exist.		305
The traveller has reached the end of the journey!	Travel	306
No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.	Fear	307
Passion for fame: A passion which is the instinct of all great souls.	Famous	308
It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact.	Great	309
Laws, like houses, lean on one another.	Legal	310
If the people are happy, united, wealthy, and powerful, we presume the rest. We conclude that to be good from whence good is derived.		311
All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter.	Government	312
Whilst shame keeps its watch, virtue is not wholly extinguished in the heart; nor will moderation be utterly exiled from the minds of tyrants.		313
I venture to say no war can be long carried on against the will of the people.		314
Free trade is not based on utility but on justice.		315
Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows, and of lending existence to nothing.	Poetry	316
It is the interest of the commercial world that wealth should be found everywhere.		317
Whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither, in my opinion, is safe.		318
Nothing is so fatal to religion as indifference.	Religion	319
The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion.		320
Toleration is good for all, or it is good for none.		321
Politics and the pulpit are terms that have little agreement.	Politics	322
Liberty must be limited in order to be possessed.	Freedom	323
The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedience, and by parts.		324
To tax and to please, no more than to love and to be wise, is not given to men.		325
Kings will be tyrants from policy, when subjects are rebels from principle.		326
Religious persecution may shield itself under the guise of a mistaken and over-zealous piety.		401
To innovate is not to reform.		402
By gnawing through a dike, even a rat may drown a nation.		403
All human laws are, properly speaking, only declaratory; they have no power over the substance of original justice.		404
There is a boundary to men's passions when they act from feelings; but none when they are under the influence of imagination.	Imagination	405
Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones.		406
Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other.		407
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.		408
I have never yet seen any plan which has not been mended by the observations of those who were much inferior in understanding to the person who took the lead in the business.		409
A disposition to preserve, and an ability to improve, taken together, would be my standard of a statesman.		410
If you can be well without health, you may be happy without virtue.		411
Custom reconciles us to everything.		412
Nobility is a graceful ornament to the civil order. It is the Corinthian capital of polished society.		413
The tyranny of a multitude is a multiplied tyranny.		414
Falsehood is a perennial spring.		415
He had no failings which were not owing to a noble cause; to an ardent, generous, perhaps an immoderate passion for fame; a passion which is the instinct of all great souls.		416
Tyrants seldom want pretexts.		417
It is, generally, in the season of prosperity that men discover their real temper, principles, and designs.		418
The march of the human mind is slow.		419

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