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Edmund Burke Quotes - Page 19

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It is undoubtedly true, though it may seem paradoxical,--but, in general, those who are habitually employed in finding and displaying faults are unqualified for the work of reformation.

It is undoubtedly true, though it may seem paradoxical,--but, in general, those who are habitually employed in finding and displaying faults are unqualified for the work of reformation.

May, Unqualified, Faults

Edmund Burke (1852). “The works and correspondence of...Edmund Burke”, p.291

Whatever each man can separately do, without trespassing upon others, he has a right to do for himself; and he has a right to a fair portion of all which society, with all it combinations of skill and force, can do in his favor. In this partnership all men have equal rights; but not to equal things.

Wisdom, Men, Rights

Edmund Burke (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Edmund Burke (Illustrated)”, p.1426, Delphi Classics

Guilt was never a rational thing; it distorts all the faculties of the human mind, it perverts them, it leaves a man no longer in the free use of his reason, it puts him into confusion.

Men, Confusion, Mind

William Pitt (Earl of Chatham), Edmund Burke, Thomas Erskine Baron Erskine, Jean Gabriel Peltier (1834). “Celebrated Speeches of Chatham, Burke, and Erskine: To which is Added the Arguement of Mr. Mackintosh in the Case of Peltier”, p.298

Dangers by being despised grow great.

Hate, Danger, Despise

Speech on the Petition of the Unitarians, 11 May 1792, in 'The Works' vol. 5 (1812)

The same sun which gilds all nature, and exhilarates the whole creation, does not shine upon disappointed ambition.

Ambition, Shining, Doe

Edmund Burke (1756). “The Works of the Right Honorable Edmund Burke ...: A vindication of natural society. An essay on the sublime and beautiful. Political miscellanies”, p.233

In the weakness of one kind of authority, and in the fluctuation of all, the officers of an army will remain for some time mutinous and full of faction, until some popular general, who understands the art of conciliating the soldiery, and who possesses the true spirit of command, shall draw the eyes of all men upon himself. Armies will obey him on his personal account. There is no other way of securing military obedience in this state of things.

Art, Military, Eye

Edmund Burke (1868). “Reflections on the Revolution in France and on the Proceedings in Certain Societies in London Relative to that Event: 1790”, p.249

Turbulent, discontented men of quality, in proportion as they are puffed up with personal pride and arrogance, generally despise their own order.

Pride, Men, Order

Edmund Burke (1852). “The works and correspondence of...Edmund Burke”, p.188

Sallust is indisputably one of the best historians among the Romans, both for the purity of his language and the elegance of his style.

Style, Language, Purity

Edmund Burke, Arthur P.I. Samuels (2014). “The Early Life Correspondence and Writings of The Rt. Hon. Edmund Burke”, p.129, CUP Archive

By looking into physical causes our minds are opened and enlarged; and in this pursuit, whether we take or whether we lose the game, the chase is certainly of service.

Games, Mind, Causes

Edmund Burke (2012). “A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful”, p.5, Courier Corporation

Teach me, O lark! with thee to greatly rise, to exalt my soul and lift it to the skies.

Sky, Soul, Larks

Edmund Burke (1852). “The Works and Correspondence Of...Edmund Burke”, p.3

Nothing less will content me, than wholeAmerica.

Speech 'On Conciliation with America' 22 March 1775

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

Perfect, Democracy, World

'Reflections on the Revolution in France' (1790) p. 139

My vigour relents. I pardon something to the spirit of liberty.

Liberty, Spirit, Pardon

Edmund Burke (1948). “Selected Prose”

In the groves of their academy, at the end of every vista, you see nothing but the gallows.

Prejudice, Grove, Ends

'Reflections on the Revolution in France' (1790) p. 115.

A nation is not conquered which is perpetually to be conquered.

Nations

Public calamity is a mighty leveller.

Adversity, Calamity

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.74

The religion most prevalent in our northern colonies is a refinement on the principles of resistance: it is the dissidence of dissent, and the protestantism of the Protestant religion.

Religion, Principles, Resistance

Speech 'On Conciliation with America' 22 March 1775

An extreme rigor is sure to arm everything against it.

Arms, Oppression, Rigor

Edmund Burke (2008). “The Writings and Speeches of Edmund Burke: On Conciliation with America; Security of the Independence of Parliament; on Mr. Fox's East India”, p.323, Cosimo, Inc.

It is by imitation, far more than by precept, that we learn everything; and what we learn thus, we acquire not only more effectually, but more pleasantly.

Imitation, Acquire

Edmund Burke (1834). “The Works of the Right Hon. Edmund Burke: With a Biographical and Critical Introduction, and Portrait After Sir Joshua Reynolds”, p.36

He who calls in the aid of an equal understanding doubles his own; and he who profits by a superior understanding raises his powers to a level with the height of the superior standing he unites with.

Advice, Understanding, Levels

Make the Revolution a parent of settlement, and not a nursery of future revolutions.

Parent, Revolution, Nursery

'Reflections on the Revolution in France' (1790) p. 38

Flattery is no more than what raises in a man's mind an idea of a preference which he has not.

Men, Ideas, Mind

Edmund Burke (2012). “A Philosophical Inquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas”, p.34, Simon and Schuster

That great chain of causes, which, linking one to another, even to the throne of God Himself, can never be unraveled by any industry of ours.

Causes, Thrones, Mystery

Edmund Burke (1854). “The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke: A vindication of natural society”, p.143

Circumstances give in reality to every political principle its distinguishing color and discriminating effect. The circumstances are what render every civil and political scheme beneficial or noxious to mankind.

Reality, Color, Giving

Edmund Burke (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Edmund Burke (Illustrated)”, p.1385, Delphi Classics

Some decent regulated pre-eminence, some preference (not exclusive appropriation) given to birth, is neither unnatural, nor unjust, nor impolite.

Unjust, Ancestry, Birth

"Reflections on the Revolution in France". Political pamphlet by Edmund Burke, November 1790.

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