Edmund Burke Quotes

492 quotes · Philosopher, Politician

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Edmund Burke Quotes

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Edmund Burke

Philosopher, Politician

Creative

“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.”

Men Eye Earth

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Edmund Burke

Philosopher, Politician

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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Grieving

“Genuine simplicity of heart is a healing and cementing principle.”

Heart Healing Simplicity

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Philosophical

“Tyrants seldom want pretexts.”

War Peace

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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

“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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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

“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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Creative

“The only kind of sublimity which a painter or sculptor should aim at is to express by certain proportions and positions of limbs and features that strength and dignity of mind, and vigor and activity of body, which enables men to conceive and execute great actions.”

Men Art Mind

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