Edmund Burke Quotes - Page 13

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• The moment you abate anything from the full rights of men to each govern himself, and suffer any artificial positive limitation upon those rights, from that moment the whole organization of government becomes a consideration of convenience.

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  Men, Rights, Organization

  Edmund Burke (1999). “The Portable Edmund Burke”, p.416, Penguin

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• Man is an animal that cooks his victuals.

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  Animal, Men, Cooks

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• Greater mischief happens often from folly, meanness, and vanity than from the greater sins of avarice and ambition.

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  Ambition, Vanity, Sin

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• Those who quit their proper character to assume what does not belong to them are, for the greater part, ignorant both of the character they leave and of the character they assume.

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  Character, Ignorant, Doe

  Edmund Burke (2008). “The Writings and Speeches of Edmund Burke”, p.246, Cosimo, Inc.

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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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  Discipline, Justice, Example

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• I find along with many virtues in my countrymen there is a jealousy, a soreness, and readiness to take offence, as if they were the most helpless and impotent of mankind, and yet a violence... and a boistrousness in their resentment, as if they had been puffed up with the highest prosperity and power. they will not only be served, but it must also be in their own way and on their own principles and even in words and language that they liked... which renders it very difficult for a plain unguarded man as I am to have anything to do with them or their affairs.

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  Men, History, Way

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• Fiction lags after truth, invention is unfruitful, and imagination cold and barren.

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  Truth, Imagination, Fiction

  Speech 'On Conciliation with America' 22 March 1775

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• It is by bribing, not so often by being bribed, that wicked politicians bring ruin on mankind. Avarice is a rival to the pursuits of many.

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  Wicked, Rivals, Ruins

  Edmund Burke (1804). “Maxims and opinions, moral, political and economical, with characters, from the works of ... Edmund Burke”, p.15

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• The wise determine from the gravity of the case; the irritable, from sensibility to oppression; the high minded, from disdain and indignation at abusive power in unworthy hands.

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  Wise, Hands, Oppression

  Edmund Burke (1807). “Works: 1st American from the Last London Ed”, p.47

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• Party is a body of men united, for promoting by their joint endeavours the national interest, upon some particular principle in which they are all agreed.

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  Party, Men, Body

  Edmund Burke (1792). “The works of ... Edmund Burke [ed. by W. King and F. Laurence].”, p.498

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• Though ugliness be the opposite of beauty, it is not the opposite to proportion and fitness; for it is possible that a thing may be very ugly with any proportions, and with a perfect fitness for any use.

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  Opposites, Perfect, Ugly

  Edmund Burke (1824). “A Philosophical Inquiry Into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful”, p.125

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• Writers, especially when they act in a body and with one direction, have great influence on the public mind.

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  Writing, One Direction, Mind

  Edmund Burke (1860). “The Works of Edmund Burke: With a Memoir”, p.505

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• Nothing ought to be more weighed than the nature of books recommended by public authority. So recommended, they soon form the character of the age.

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  Book, Character, Age

  Edmund Burke (1804). “Maxims and opinions, moral, political and economical, with characters, from the works of ... Edmund Burke”, p.14

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• That cardinal virtue, temperance.

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  Virtue, Cardinals, Temperance

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• Poetry, with all its obscurity, has a more general as well as a more powerful dominion over the passions than the art of painting.

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  Art, Powerful, Passion

  Edmund Burke (1999). “The Portable Edmund Burke”, p.93, Penguin

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• To drive men from independence to live on alms, is itself great cruelty.

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  Men, Independence, Welfare

  Edmund Burke (1852). “The Works and Correspondance of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke”, p.237

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• I dread our own power, and our own ambition; I dread our being too much dreaded... We may say that we shall not abuse this astonishing, and hitherto unheard-of-power. But every other nation will think we shall abuse it. It is impossible but that, sooner or later, this state of things must produce a combination against us which may end in our ruin.

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  Ambition, Thinking, Abuse

  Edmund Burke's remarks on the policy of the allies, as quoted in "The Works of Edmund Burke", 1839.

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• Society is indeed a contract. It is a partnership in all science; a partnership in all art; a partnership in every virtue, and in all perfection. As the ends of such a partnership cannot be obtained in many generations, it becomes a partnership not only between those who are living, but between those who are living, those who are dead, and those who are to be born.

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  Art, Perfection, Society

  Edmund Burke (1860). “The Works of Edmund Burke: With a Memoir”, p.498

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• The concessions of the weak are the concessions of fear.

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  Fear, Weakness, Concessions

  Speech 'On Conciliation with America' 22 March 1775

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• By this unprincipled facility of changing the state as often, and as much, and in as many ways as there are floating fancies or fashions, the whole chain and continuity of the commonwealth would be broken. No one generation could link with the other. Men would become little better than the flies of a summer.

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  Change, Summer, Fashion

  Edmund Burke (2005). “Burke, Select Works”, The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd.

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• 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.

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  Pain, Passion, Men

  Edmund Burke (1834). “The Works of the Right Hon. Edmund Burke: With a Biographical and Critical Introduction, and Portrait After Sir Joshua Reynolds”, p.32

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• Beauty is the promise of happiness.

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  Beauty, Promise

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• As to great and commanding talents, they are the gift of Providence in some way unknown to us, they rise where they are least expected; they fail when everything seems disposed to produce them, or at least to call them forth.

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  Way, Talent, Failing

  Edmund Burke (1852). “The Works and Correspondence Of...Edmund Burke”, p.607

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• Unsociable humors are contracted in solitude, which will, in the end, not fail of corrupting the understanding as well as the manners, and of utterly disqualifying a man for the satisfactions and duties of life. Men must be taken as they are, and we neither make them or ourselves better by flying from or quarreling with them.

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  Taken, Men, Understanding

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• Society is indeed a contract. ... It is a partnership in all science; a partnership in all art; a partnership in every virtue, and in all perfection.

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  Art, Perfection, Society

  Edmund Burke (1860). “The Works of Edmund Burke: With a Memoir”, p.498

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