Edmund Burke Quotes

492 quotes · Philosopher, Politician

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Edmund Burke Quotes

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Edmund Burke

Philosopher, Politician

Regretful

“They made and recorded a sort of institute and digest of anarchy, called the rights of man.”

Men Rights Anarchy

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Edmund Burke

Philosopher, Politician

Spiritual

“You will not think it unnatural that those who have an object depending, which strongly engages their hopes and fears, should be somewhat inclining to superstition.”

Thinking Should Superstitions

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Philosophical

“To tax and to please, no more than to love and to be wise, is not given to men.”

Love Wise

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Sad

“Beauty in distress is much the most affecting beauty.”

Beauty Distress

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Angry

“To prove that the Americans ought not to be free, we are obliged to deprecate the value of freedom itself.”

Freedom Prove Ought

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Courageous

“Rage and frenzy will pull down more in half an hour than prudence, deliberation, and foresight can build up in a hundred years.”

Years Evil Half

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Angry

“A perfect democracy is therefore the most shameless thing in the world.”

World Perfect

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Philosophical

“Those who attempt to level never equalize”

Levels

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Philosophical

“Power gradually extirpates from the mind every humane and gentle virtue.”

Mind Politics

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Philosophical

“One that confounds good and evil is an enemy to good.”

Evil Enemy

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Courageous

“A populace never rebels from passion for attack, but from impatience of suffering.”

Passion Suffering

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Philosophical

“All men that are ruined, are ruined on the side of their natural propensities.”

Men Destiny

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