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Edmund Burke Quotes - Page 17

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Politics and the pulpit are terms that have little agreement. No sound ought to be heard in the church but the healing voice of Christian charity. The cause of civil liberty and civil government gains as little as that

Politics and the pulpit are terms that have little agreement. No sound ought to be heard in the church but the healing voice of Christian charity. The cause of civil liberty and civil government gains as little as that of religion by this confusion of duties. Those who quit their proper character to assume what does not belong to them are, for the greater part, ignorant both of the character they leave and of the character they assume.

Christian, Character, Healing

Edmund Burke (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Edmund Burke (Illustrated)”, p.1388, Delphi Classics

Continue to instruct the world; and - whilst we carry on a poor unequal conflict with the passions and prejudices of our day, perhaps with no better weapons than other passions and prejudices of our own - convey wisdom to future generations.

Passion, History, Prejudice

Edmund Burke (1852). “The Works and Correspondence Of...Edmund Burke”, p.340

There are cases in which a man would be ashamed not to have been imposed upon. There is a confidence necessary to human intercourse, and without which men are often more injured by their own suspicions than they would be by the perfidy of others.

Men, Knavery, Would Be

Edmund Burke (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Edmund Burke (Illustrated)”, p.3673, Delphi Classics

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

Freedom, Prove, Ought

Instead of casting away all our old prejudices, we cherish them to a very considerable degree, and, to take more shame to ourselves, we cherish them because they are prejudices; and the longer they have lasted and the more generally they have prevailed, the more we cherish them. We are afraid to put men to live and trade each on his own private stock of reason; because we suspect that this stock in each man is small, and that the individuals would do better to avail themselves of the general bank and capital of nations and of ages.

Men, Age, Casting

Depend upon it that the lovers of freedom will be free.

Freedom, Lovers, Depends

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.134

By the disposition of a stupendous wisdom, moulding together the great mysterious incorporation of the human race, the whole, at one time, is never old, or middle-aged, or young; but, in a condition of unchangeable constancy, moves on through the varied tenor of perpetual decay, fall, renovation, and progression.

Moving, Fall, Race

Edmund Burke (1999). “The Portable Edmund Burke”, p.405, Penguin

Oppression makes wise men mad; but the distemper is still the madness of the wise, which is better than the sobriety of fools.

Wise, Men, Mad

Edmund Burke, Robert MONTGOMERY (Author of “Satan.”.) (1853). “Edmund Burke: being first principles selected from his writings. With an introductory essay by Robert Montgomery”, p.153

To govern according to the sense and agreement of the interests of the people is a great and glorious object of governance. This object cannot be obtained but through the medium of popular election, and popular election is a mighty evil.

Responsibility, Power, Agreement

Taste and elegance, though they are reckoned only among the smaller and secondary morals, yet are of no mean importance in the regulations of life. A moral taste is not of force to turn vice into virtue; but it recommends virtue with something like the blandishments of pleasure, and it infinitely abates the evils of vice.

Mean, Evil, Vices

Edmund Burke (1841). “Works”, p.484

The parties are the gamesters; but government keeps the table, and is sure to be the winner in the end.

Party, Government, Tables

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.120

To give freedom is still more easy. It is not necessary to guide; it only requires to let go the rein. But to form a free government; that is, to temper together these opposite elements of liberty and restraint in one work, requires much thought, deep reflection, a sagacious, powerful, and combining mind.

Letting Go, Powerful, Reflection

Edmund Burke (1912). “Reflections on the French Revolution”, p.251, CUP Archive

Though ugliness be the opposite of beauty, it is not the opposite to proportion and fitness; for it is possible that a thing may be very ugly with any proportions, and with a perfect fitness for any use.

Opposites, Perfect, Ugly

Edmund Burke (1824). “A Philosophical Inquiry Into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful”, p.125

I own that there is a haughtiness and fierceness in human nature which will cause innumerable broils, place men in what situation you please.

Men, Humanity, Haughtiness

Edmund Burke (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Edmund Burke (Illustrated)”, p.32, Delphi Classics

The question is not whether you have a right to render people miserable, but whether it is not in your best interest to make them happy.

People, Miserable, Interest

I cannot stand forward, and give praise or blame to any thing which relates to human actions, and human concerns, on a simple view of the subject as it stands stripped of every relation, in all the nakedness and solitude of metaphysical abstraction. Circumstances (which with some gentlemen pass for nothing) give in reality to every political principle its distinguishing colour, and discriminating effect. The circumstances are what render every civil and political scheme beneficial or noxious to mankind.

Simple, Reality, Views

It is the function of a judge not to make but to declare the law, according to the golden mete-wand of the law and not by the crooked cord of discretion.

Law, Judging, Golden

The traveller has reached the end of the journey!

Journey, Dhammapada, Ends

Spain: A whale stranded upon the coast of Europe.

Europe, Whales, Spain

I would rather sleep in the southern corner of a little country churchyard than in the tomb of the Capulets.

Country, Sleep, Southern

Edmund Burke, Arthur P.I. Samuels (2014). “The Early Life Correspondence and Writings of The Rt. Hon. Edmund Burke”, p.221, Cambridge University Press

Beauty in distress is much the most affecting beauty.

Beauty, Distress

Edmund Burke (1792). “The works of ... Edmund Burke [ed. by W. King and F. Laurence].”, p.176

Party is a body of men united, for promoting by their joint endeavours the national interest, upon some particular principle in which they are all agreed.

Party, Men, Body

Edmund Burke (1792). “The works of ... Edmund Burke [ed. by W. King and F. Laurence].”, p.498

Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom; and a great empire and little minds go ill together.

Mind, Together, Politics

Speech 'On Conciliation with America' 22 March 1775

Of this stamp is the cant of, Not men, but measures.

Men, Stamps, Cant

'Thoughts on the Cause of the Present Discontents' (1770) p. 75

Where two motives, neither of them perfectly justifiable, may be assigned, the worst has the chance of being preferred.

Two, Political, May

Edmund Burke (2008). “The Writings and Speeches of Edmund Burke”, p.343, Cosimo, Inc.

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