Edmund Burke Quotes - Page 17

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• Many of the greatest tyrants on the records of history have begun their reigns in the fairest manner. But the truth is, this unnatural power corrupts both the heart and the understanding.

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  Heart, Tyrants, Political

  Edmund Burke (1858). “The Inherent Evils of All State Governments Demonstrated; Being a Reprint of ... “A Vindication of Natural Society.” With Notes and an Appendix, Etc”, p.19

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• It is for the most part in our skill in manners, and in the observations of time and place and of decency in general, that what is called taste by way of distinction consists; and which is in reality no other than a more refined judgment.

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  Reality, Skills, Way

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• The poorest being that crawls on earth, contending to save itself from injustice and oppression, is an object respectable in the eyes of God and man.

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  Eye, Men, Earth

  Edmund Burke (1826). “The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke”, p.93

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• I despair of ever receiving the same degree of pleasure from the most exalted performances of genius which I felt in childhood from pieces which my present judgment regards as trifling and contemptible.

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  Childhood, Romance, Despair

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• It is hard to say whether doctors of law or divinity have made the greater advances in the lucrative business of mystery.

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  Doctors, Law, Justice

  Edmund Burke, Ian Harris (1993). “Pre-Revolutionary Writings”, p.50, Cambridge University Press

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• In such a strait the wisest may well be perplexed and the boldest staggered.

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  Wisdom, May, Wells

  Edmund Burke (1852). “The Works and Correspondence of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke”, p.161

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• Man acts from adequate motives relative to his interest, and not on metaphysical speculations.

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  Men, Adequate, Metaphysical

  Edmund Burke, James BURKE (Barrister-at-Law.) (1854). “The Speeches of the Right Hon. Edmund Burke, with Memoir and Historical Introductions. By James Burke”, p.115

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• The esteem of wise and good men is the greatest of all temporal encouragements to virtue; and it is a mark of an abandoned spirit to have no regard to it.

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  Wise, Encouragement, Good Man

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• 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.

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  Law, Giving, Community

  Edmund Burke (1999). “The Portable Edmund Burke”, p.285, Penguin

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• Abstract liberty, like other mere abstractions, is not to be found.

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  Liberty, Abstract, Found

  Speech 'On Conciliation with America' 22 March 1775

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• There is America, which at this day serves for little more than to amuse you with stories of savage men and uncouth manners, yet shall, before you taste of death, show itself equal to the whole of that commerce which now attracts the envy of the world.

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  Death, Men, America

  Edmund Burke (1852). “The Works and Correspondence of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke”, p.250

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• Nothing so effectually deadens the taste of the sublime as that which is light and radiant.

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  Light, Sublime, Taste

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• In the groves of their academy, at the end of every vista, you see nothing but the gallows.

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  Prejudice, Grove, Ends

  'Reflections on the Revolution in France' (1790) p. 115.

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• Public calamity is a mighty leveller.

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  Adversity, Calamity

  Edmund Burke, James BURKE (Barrister-at-Law.) (1854). “The Speeches of the Right Hon. Edmund Burke, with Memoir and Historical Introductions. By James Burke”, p.74

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• Guilt was never a rational thing; it distorts all the faculties of the human mind, it perverts them, it leaves a man no longer in the free use of his reason, it puts him into confusion.

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  Men, Confusion, Mind

  William Pitt (Earl of Chatham), Edmund Burke, Thomas Erskine Baron Erskine, Jean Gabriel Peltier (1834). “Celebrated Speeches of Chatham, Burke, and Erskine: To which is Added the Arguement of Mr. Mackintosh in the Case of Peltier”, p.298

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• In the weakness of one kind of authority, and in the fluctuation of all, the officers of an army will remain for some time mutinous and full of faction, until some popular general, who understands the art of conciliating the soldiery, and who possesses the true spirit of command, shall draw the eyes of all men upon himself. Armies will obey him on his personal account. There is no other way of securing military obedience in this state of things.

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  Art, Military, Eye

  Edmund Burke (1868). “Reflections on the Revolution in France and on the Proceedings in Certain Societies in London Relative to that Event: 1790”, p.249

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• Turbulent, discontented men of quality, in proportion as they are puffed up with personal pride and arrogance, generally despise their own order.

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  Pride, Men, Order

  Edmund Burke (1852). “The works and correspondence of...Edmund Burke”, p.188

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• The same sun which gilds all nature, and exhilarates the whole creation, does not shine upon disappointed ambition.

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  Ambition, Shining, Doe

  Edmund Burke (1756). “The Works of the Right Honorable Edmund Burke ...: A vindication of natural society. An essay on the sublime and beautiful. Political miscellanies”, p.233

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• Teach me, O lark! with thee to greatly rise, to exalt my soul and lift it to the skies.

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  Sky, Soul, Larks

  Edmund Burke (1852). “The Works and Correspondence Of...Edmund Burke”, p.3

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• The power of perpetuating our property in our families is one of the most valuable and interesting circumstances belonging to it, and that which tends the most to the perpetuation of society itself.

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  Wisdom, Interesting, Politics

  Edmund Burke (2014). “Revolutionary Writings: Reflections on the Revolution in France and the First Letter on a Regicide Peace”, p.52, Cambridge University Press

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• Make the Revolution a parent of settlement, and not a nursery of future revolutions.

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  Parent, Revolution, Nursery

  'Reflections on the Revolution in France' (1790) p. 38

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• Old religious factions are volcanoes burnt out.

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  Religious, Volcanoes, Factions

  Speech on Petition of the Unitarians, 11 May 1792

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• A thing may look specious in theory, and yet be ruinous in practice; a thing may look evil in theory, and yet be in practice excellent.

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  Practice, Evil, May

  Edmund Burke (1852). “The Works and Correspondance of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke”, p.449

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• True humility-the basis of the Christian system-is the low but deep and firm foundation of all virtues.

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  Christian, Humility, Foundation

  Edmund Burke (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Edmund Burke (Illustrated)”, p.3683, Delphi Classics

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• It is the love of the people; it is their attachment to their government, from the sense of the deep stake they have in such a glorious institution, which gives you your army 168 and your navy, and infuses into both that liberal obedience, without which your army would be a base rabble, and your navy nothing but rotten timber.

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  Army, Attachment, Government

  Speech 'On Conciliation with America' 22 March 1775

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