Edmund Burke Quotes

492 quotes · Philosopher, Politician

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Edmund Burke Quotes

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Edmund Burke

Philosopher, Politician

Philosophical

“A good parson once said that where mystery begins religion ends. Cannot I say, as truly at least, of human laws, that where mystery begins justice ends?”

Law Justice Investing

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Edmund Burke

Philosopher, Politician

Philosophical

“There ought to be system of manners in every nation which a well-formed mind would be disposed to relish. To make us love our country, our country ought to be lovely.”

Country Mind Lovely

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Wise

“The wisdom of our ancestors.”

Wisdom Ancestor

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Philosophical

“The truly sublime is always easy, and always natural.”

Style Easy

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Philosophical

“Falsehood is a perennial spring.”

Lying Spring

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Philosophical

“But whoever is a genuine follower of Truth, keeps his eye steady upon his guide, indifferent whither he is led, provided that she is the leader.”

Eye Leader Curiosity

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Philosophical

“The method of teaching which approaches most nearly to the method of investigation is incomparably the best.”

Teaching Method Investigation

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Philosophical

“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.”

Heart Political Tyrants

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Grateful

“Our manners, our civilization, and all the good things connected with manners and civilization, have, in this European world of ours, depended for ages upon two principles: I mean the spirit of a gentleman, and the spirit of religion.”

Mean Two Civilization

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Philosophical

“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.”

Art Perfection Society

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Love

“In this choice of inheritance we have given to our frame of polity the image of a relation in blood; binding up the constitution of our country with our dearest domestic ties; adopting our fundamental laws into the bosom of our family affections; keeping inseparable and cherishing with the warmth of all their combined and mutually reflected charities, our state, our hearths, our sepulchres, and our altars.”

Country War Blood

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Spiritual

“Religion is for the man in humble life, and to raise his nature, and to put him in mind of a state in which the privileges of opulence will cease, when he will be equal by nature, and may be more than equal by virtue.”

Men Mind Humble

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