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Edmund Burke Quotes - Page 10

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Men want to be reminded, who do not want to be taught; because those original ideas of rectitude to which the mind is compelled to assent when they are proposed, are not always as present to us as they ought to be.

Men want to be reminded, who do not want to be taught; because those original ideas of rectitude to which the mind is compelled to assent when they are proposed, are not always as present to us as they ought to be.

Teaching, Men, Ideas

Edmund Burke (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Edmund Burke (Illustrated)”, p.2071, Delphi Classics

No men can act with effect who do not act in concert; no men can act in concert who do not act with confidence; no men can act with confidence who are not bound together with common opinions, common affections, and common interests.

Men, Together, Opinion

Mere parsimony is not economy. Expense, and great expense, may be an essential part in true economy.

Commitment, Essentials, May

Edmund Burke (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Edmund Burke (Illustrated)”, p.3780, Delphi Classics

It is, generally, in the season of prosperity that men discover their real temper, principles, and designs.

Real, Men, Design

Edmund Burke (1839). “The Works of Edmund Burke ...”, p.349

Religion, to have any force upon men's understandings,--indeed, to exist at all,--must be supposed paramount to law, and independent for its substance upon any human institution, else it would be the absurdest thing in the world,--an acknowledged cheat.

Independent, Men, Law

Edmund Burke (1852). “The Works and Correspondence Of...Edmund Burke”, p.26

[Slavery] is a weed that grows in every soil.

Inspirational, Weed, Marijuana

"The Works of the Right Hon. Edmund Burke: With a Biographical and Critical Introduction, and Portrait After Sir Joshua Reynolds".

Vice itself lost half its evil, by losing all its grossness.

Evil, Vices, Half

'Reflections on the Revolution in France' (1790) p. 113

We must not always judge of the generality of the opinion by the noise of the acclamation.

Judging, Liberty, Civil Rights

Edmund Burke (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Edmund Burke (Illustrated)”, p.3831, Delphi Classics

The march of the human mind is slow.

Mind, Progress, March

Edmund Burke, James BURKE (Barrister-at-Law.) (1854). “The Speeches of the Right Hon. Edmund Burke, with Memoir and Historical Introductions. By James Burke”, p.102

Who can know her, and himself, and entertain much hope? Who can see and know such a creature, and not love her to distraction? She has all the softness that does not imply weakness... she is not made to be the admiration of everybody, but the happiness of one.

Love, Weakness, Doe

The conduct of a losing party never appears right: at least it never can possess the only infallible criterion of wisdom to vulgar judgements-success.

Party, Judgement, Losing

'Letter to a Member of the National Assembly' (1791) p. 7

By hating vices too much, they come to love men too little.

Hate, Men, Political

1790 Reflections on the Revolution in France.

Corrupt influence is itself the perennial spring of all prodigality, and of all disorder; it loads us more than millions of debt; takes away vigor from our arms, wisdom from our councils, and every shadow of authority and credit from the most venerable parts of our constitution.

Spring, Shadow, Credit

Edmund Burke (1999). “The Portable Edmund Burke”, p.174, Penguin

Parliament is not a congress of ambassadors from different and hostile interests; which interests each must maintain, as an agent and advocate, against other agents and advocates; but parliament is a deliberative assembly of one nation, with one interest, that of the whole; where, not local purposes, not local prejudices ought to guide, but the general good, resulting from the general reason of the whole. You choose a member indeed; but when you have chosen him, he is not a member of Bristol, but he is a member of parliament.

Agents, Ambassadors, Politics

Edmund Burke (1999). “The Portable Edmund Burke”, p.172, Penguin

Men who undertake considerable things, even in a regular way, ought to give us ground to presume ability.

Men, Giving, Way

Edmund Burke (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Edmund Burke (Illustrated)”, p.1514, Delphi Classics

Good company, lively conversation, and the endearments of friendship fill the mind with great pleasure.

Friendship, Mind, Pleasure

Edmund Burke (1824). “A Philosophical Inquiry Into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful”, p.39

To reach the height of our ambition is like trying to reach the rainbow; as we advance it recedes.

Christian, Ambition, Rainbow

The objects of a financier are, then, to secure an ample revenue; to impose it with judgment and equality; to employ it economically; and, when necessity obliges him to make use of credit, to secure its foundations in that instance, and for ever, by the clearness and candor of his proceedings, the exactness of his calculations, and the solidity of his funds.

Money, Foundation, Use

Edmund Burke (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Edmund Burke (Illustrated)”, p.1560, Delphi Classics

Prejudice is of ready application in the emergency; it previously engages the mind in a steady course of wisdom and virtue, and does not leave the man hesitating in the moment of decision, skeptical, puzzled and unresolved. Prejudice renders a man's virtue his habit; and not a series of unconnected acts. Through past prejudice, his duty becomes part of his nature.

Past, Men, Decision

Edmund Burke (1963). “Edmund Burke: Selected Writings and Speeches”, p.559, Transaction Publishers

Woman is not made to be the admiration of everybody , but the happiness of one.

Happiness, Admiration, Made

"Selected Prose".

The individual is foolish; the multitude, for the moment is foolish, when they act without deliberation; but the species is wise, and, when time is given to it, as a species it always acts right.

Wise, Moments, Foolish

Edmund Burke (1963). “Edmund Burke: Selected Writings and Speeches”, p.398, Transaction Publishers

We begin our public affection in our families. No cold relation is a zealous citizen.

Citizens, Zealous, Affection

1790 Reflections on the Revolution in France.

The perfection of conversation is not to play a regular sonata, but, like the AEolian harp, to await the inspiration of the passing breeze.

Inspiration, Play, Perfection

Parliament is a deliberative assembly of one nation.You choose a Member indeed; but when you have chosen him, heisnotthe Member for Bristol, but heisa Member of Parliament.

Parliament, Bristol, Members

Expense, and great expense, may be an essential part in true economy. If parsimony were to be considered as one of the kinds of that virtue, there is, however, another and a higher economy. Economy is a distinctive virtue, and consists not in saving, but in selection.

Essentials, Saving, May

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