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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Frugality is founded on the principal that all riches have limits.

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It is the interest of the commercial world that wealth should be found everywhere.

Edmund Burke

The tyranny of a multitude is a multiplied tyranny.

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Custom reconciles us to everything.

Edmund Burke

Whilst shame keeps its watch, virtue is not wholly extinguished in the heart; nor will moderation be utterly exiled from the minds of tyrants.

Edmund Burke

Whenever our neighbour's house is on fire, it cannot be amiss for the engines to play a little on our own.

Edmund Burke

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.

Edmund Burke

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.

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The march of the human mind is slow.

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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.

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Falsehood is a perennial spring.

Edmund Burke

To innovate is not to reform.

Edmund Burke

All that is necessary for evil to succeed is that good men do nothing.

Edmund Burke

He that accuses all mankind of corruption ought to remember that he is sure to convict only one.

Edmund Burke

No power so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.

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. Those who know what virtuous liberty is, cannot bear to see it disgraced by incapable h...

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Woman is not made to be the admiration of all, but the happiness of one.

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

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History consists, for the greater part, of the miseries brought upon the world by pride, ambition, avarice, revenge, lust, sedition, hypocrisy, ungoverned zeal, and all the train of disorderly appetites, which shake the public with the same —“tro...

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History is the preceptor of prudence, not principles.

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A representative owes not just his industry but his judgement

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Author Bio

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