Edmund Burke — Philosophical Quotes

183 quotes · Philosopher, Politician

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Edmund Burke Quotes

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Edmund Burke

Philosopher, Politician

Philosophical

“There is a time when the hoary head of inveterate abuse will neither draw reverence nor obtain protection.”

Abuse Protection Reverence

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Edmund Burke

Philosopher, Politician

Philosophical

“Laws are commanded to hold their tongues among arms; and tribunals fall to the ground with the peace they are no longer able to uphold.”

War Law Fall

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Philosophical

“Tyrants seldom want pretexts.”

War Peace Tyrants

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Philosophical

“Power, in whatever hands, is rarely guilty of too strict limitations on itself.”

Hands Power

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Philosophical

“Laws, like houses, lean on one another.”

Law House

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Philosophical

“The love of lucre, though sometimes carried to a ridiculous excess, a vicious excess, is the grand cause of prosperity to all States.”

Causes Ridiculous Excess

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Philosophical

“There are three estates in Parliament but in the Reporters' Gallery yonder there sits a Fourth Estate more important far than they all. It is not a figure of speech or witty saying, it is a literal fact, very momentous to us in these times.”

Important Knowledge Witty

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Philosophical

“Of all things, wisdom is the most terrified with epidemical fanaticism, because, of all enemies, it is that against which she is the least able to furnish any kind of resource.”

Kind Able Enemy

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Philosophical

“We must soften into a credulity below the milkiness of infancy to think all men virtuous. We must be tainted with a malignity truly diabolical, to believe all the world to be equally wicked and corrupt.”

Thinking Men Believe

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Philosophical

“I thought ten thousand swords must have leaped from their scabbards to avenge even a look that threatened her with insult. But the age of chivalry is gone.”

Looks Age Gone

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Philosophical

“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.”

Giving Reality Color

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Philosophical

“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.”

Interesting Wisdom Politics

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