Edmund Burke Philosophical Quotes — Page 8

Edmund Burke

Philosopher, Politician

Philosophical

“A people who are still, as it were, but in the gristle, and not yet hardened into the bone of manhood.”

People America Bones

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Edmund Burke

Philosopher, Politician

Philosophical

“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.”

Men Taken Understanding

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Philosophical

“It is very rare, indeed, for men to be wrong in their feelings concerning public misconduct; as rare to be right in their speculations upon the cause of it. I have constantly observed that the generality of people are fifty years, at least, behind in their politics.”

People Men Years

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Philosophical

“For as wealth is power, so all power will infallibly draw wealth to itself by some means or other; and when men are left no way of ascertaining their profits but by their means of obtaining them, those means will be increased to infinity.”

Mean Politics Power

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Philosophical

“Taxing is an easy business. Any projector can contrive new impositions; any bungler can add to the old; but is it altogether wise to have no other bounds to your impositions than the patience of those who are to bear them?”

Wise Business Add

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Philosophical

“Wise men will apply their remedies to vices, not to names; to the causes of evil which are permanent, not the occasional organs by which they act, and the transitory modes in which they appear.”

Men Names Wise

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Philosophical

“Virtue will catch as well as vice by contact; and the public stock of honest manly principle will daily accumulate. We are not too nicely to scrutinize motives as long as action is irreproachable. It is enough (and for a worthy man perhaps too much) to deal out its infamy to convicted guilt and declared apostasy.”

Men Long Guilt

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Philosophical

“It looks to me to be narrow and pedantic to apply the ordinary ideas of criminal justice to this great public contest. I do not know the method of drawing up an indictment against a whole people.”

People Ideas Drawing

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Philosophical

“Learning will be cast into the mire and trodden down under the hoofs of a swinish multitude.”

Science Learning Casts

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Philosophical

“It is in the relaxation of security; it is in the expansion of prosperity; it is in the hour of dilatation of the heart, and of its softening into festivity and pleasure, that the real character of men is discerned.”

Heart Real Character

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Philosophical

“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.”

Way Reality Skills

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Philosophical

“Great men are the guideposts and landmarks in the state.”

Men Greatness States

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Edmund Burke — Philosophical Quotes

Edmund Burke Quotes