Quotes by Edmund Burke

About Edmund Burke:

Edmund Burke was an Anglo-Irish statesman born in Dublin, as well as an author, orator, political theorist, and philosopher, who, after moving to England, served for many years in the House of Commons of Great Britain as a member of the Whig party.
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The wild gas, the fixed air is plainly broke loose: but we ought to suspend our judgments until the first effervescence is a little subsided, till the liquor is cleared, and until we see something deeper than the agitation of the troubled and frothy ...

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Wise men will apply their remedies to vices, not to names; to the causes of evil which are permanent, not to the occasional organs by which they act, and the transitory modes in which they appear. Otherwise you will be wise historically, a fool in pr...

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Power quotes by Edmund Burke, UberQuotes

The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.

Edmund Burke

All human laws are, properly speaking, only declaratory; they have no power over the substance of original justice.

Edmund Burke

Facts are to the mind what food is to the body.

Edmund Burke

Liberty must be limited in order to be possessed.

Edmund Burke

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.

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Beauty is the promise of happiness.

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Beauty in distress is much the most affecting beauty.

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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.

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A State without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation.

Edmund Burke

We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.

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If you can be well without health, you may be happy without virtue.

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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 most to hope and nothing to lose will always be dangerous.

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History quotes by Edmund Burke, UberQuotes

Those who don't know history are destined to repeat it.

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There is a boundary to men's passions when they act from feelings; but none when they are under the influence of imagination.

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To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.

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Education is the cheap defense of nations.

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Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom; and a great empire and little minds go ill together.

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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.

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It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact.

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Author Bio

  • NameEdmund Burke
  • DescriptionAnglo-Irish statesman
  • BornJanuary 12, 1729
  • DiedJuly 9, 1797
  • CountryIreland
  • ProfessionPolitician; Philosopher; Writer