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Edmund Burke Quotes - Page 3

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Men are qualified for civil liberty in exact proportion to their disposition to put moral chains upon their own appetites.

Men are qualified for civil liberty in exact proportion to their disposition to put moral chains upon their own appetites.

Men, Liberty, Moral

Edmund Burke (1828). “The Beauties of Burke: Consisting of Selections from His Works”, p.86

Whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither, in my opinion, is safe.

Freedom, Justice, Liberty

Edmund Burke (1999). “The Portable Edmund Burke”, p.503, Penguin

In history, a great volume is unrolled for our instruction, drawing the materials of future wisdom from the past errors and infirmities of mankind.

Wisdom, Past, Errors

Edmund Burke (1790). “Reflections on the Revolution in France: And on the Proceedings in Certain Societies in London Relative to that Event. In a Letter Intended to Have Been Sent to a Gentleman in Paris”, p.208

No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.

Inspirational, Motivational, Success

'On the Sublime and Beautiful' (1757) pt. 2, sect. 2

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

Power, Mind, Politics

"The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke: Collected in Three Volumes".

The first and simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind, is curiosity.

Emotional, Curiosity, Mind

Edmund Burke (2010). “On Taste, on the Sublime and Beautiful, Reflections on the French Revolution & a Letter to a Noble Lord”, p.29, Cosimo, Inc.

The credulity of dupes is as inexhaustible as the invention of knaves.

Knaves, Dupes, Invention

Edmund Burke (1852). “The Works and Correspondance of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke”, p.363

We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.

Inspirational, Friendship, Change

Edmund Burke (1963). “Edmund Burke: Selected Writings and Speeches”, p.316, Transaction Publishers

What ever disunites man from God, also disunites man from man.

God, Men, Unity

Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver.

Flattery, Giver, Flattering

Edmund Burke (1790). “Reflections on the Revolution in France: And on the Proceedings in Certain Societies in London Relative to that Event. In a Letter Intended to Have Been Sent to a Gentleman in Paris”, p.9

To speak of atrocious crime in mild language is treason to virtue.

Language, Speak, Virtue

Attributed in "Captain William Kidd: And Others of the Pirates Or Buccaneers who Ravaged the Seas, the Islands, and the Continents of America Two Hundred Years Ago" by John Stevens Cabot Abbott, (p. 179), 1876.

To make us love our country, our country ought to be lovely.

Love, Country, Patriotic

Edmund Burke (1807). “Works: 1st American from the Last London Ed”, p.94

Never, no never, did Nature say one thing, and wisdom another.

Wisdom, Nature, Health

'Letters on a Regicide Peace' Letter 3 (1797)

Those who have been intoxicated with power... can never willingly abandon it.

Power, Political, Term Limits

The only infallible criterion of wisdom to vulgar minds - success.

Success, Mind, Criteria

Equity money is dynamic and debt money is static.

Debt, Static, Equity

Early and provident fear is the mother of safety.

Mother, Fear, Motherhood

Edmund Burke (1816). “The Speeches of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke in the House of Commons and in Westminster Hall: In Four Volumes”, p.62

Toleration is good for all, or it is good for none.

Compassion, Justice, Tolerance

Edmund Burke (1853). “The speeches of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke: with memoir and historical introductions”, p.386

Manners are of more importance than laws. Manners are what vex or soothe, corrupt or purify, exalt or debase, barbarize or refine us, by a constant, steady, uniform, insensible operation, like that of the air we breathe.

Air, Law, Uniforms

"Three Letters to a Member of Parliament on the Proposals for Peace with the Regicide Directory of France" (1796 - 1797)

Superstition is the religion of feeble minds.

Inspirational, Mind, Religion

Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790)

People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors.

Inspirational, Family, Memories

Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790)

It is the nature of tyranny and rapacity never to learn moderation from the ill-success of first oppressions; on the contrary, all oppressors, all men thinking highly of the methods dictated by their nature, attribute the frustration of their desires to the want of sufficient rigor.

Frustration, Men, Thinking

Edmund Burke (1999). “The Portable Edmund Burke”, p.381, Penguin

People crushed by law, have no hopes but from power. If laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to laws; and those who have much hope and nothing to lose, will always be dangerous.

Power, Government, Law

Letter to Charles James Fox, 8 October 1777, in 'The Correspondence of Edmund Burke' vol. 3 (1961)

Education is the cheap defense of nations.

Education, Defense, Nations

Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones.

Encouraging, Encouragement, Mind

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