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Edmund Burke Quotes - Page 4

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You can never plan the future by the past.

You can never plan the future by the past.

Time, Smart, Inspiration

'Letter to a Member of the National Assembly' (1791) p. 73

Our patience will achieve more than our force.

Inspirational, Patience, Virtue

'Reflections on the Revolution in France' (1790) p. 249

I consider how little man is, yet, in his own mind, how great. He is lord and master of all things, yet scarce can command anything.

Men, Mind, Littles

Edmund Burke (1852). “The Works and Correspondence Of...Edmund Burke”, p.7

The grand instructor, time.

Wise, Wisdom, Instructors

Edmund Burke (1856). “The Works of the R.H. Edmund Burke”, p.57

Wars are just to those to whom they are necessary.

War, Total War

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

Law and arbitrary power are at eternal enmity.

Power, Law, Arbitrary

Edmund Burke (1963). “Edmund Burke: Selected Writings and Speeches”, p.479, Transaction Publishers

An event has happened, upon which it is difficult to speak, and impossible to be silent.

Events, Statistics, Scandal

Speech, 5 May 1789, in E. A. Bond (ed.) 'Speeches...in the Trial of Warren Hastings' (1859) vol. 2, p. 109

The moment that government appears at market, the principles of the market will be subverted.

Government, Principles, Moments

It is ordained in the eternal constitution of things, that men of intemperate minds cannot be free. Their passions forge their fetters.

Passion, Character, Men

Edmund Burke (1803). “The Works of ... Edmund Burke”, p.64

Kings will be tyrants from policy, when subjects are rebels from principle.

Kings, Tyrants, Principles

'Reflections on the Revolution in France' (1790) p. 116

This sort of people are so taken up with their theories about the rights of man that they have totally forgotten his nature.

Taken, Men, Rights

Edmund Burke (1852). “The Works and Correspondance of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke”, p.203

There is but one law for all, namely that law which governs all law, the law of our Creator, the law of humanity, justice, equity - the law of nature and of nations.

Wisdom, Equality, Law

Speech, 28 May 1794, in E. A. Bond (ed.) 'Speeches...in the Trial of Warren Hastings' (1859) vol. 4, p. 377

The distinguishing part of our constitution is its liberty. To preserve that liberty inviolate, is the peculiar duty and proper trust of a member of the house of commons. But the liberty, the only liberty I mean, is a liberty connected with order, and that not only exists with order and virtue, but cannot exist at all without them. It inheres in good and steady government, as in its substance and vital principle.

Order, Government, Liberty

"The Works of Edmund Burke: With a Memoir, in Three Volumes".

Politics and the pulpit are terms that have little agreement.

Agreement, Political, Politics

Edmund Burke (2014). “Revolutionary Writings: Reflections on the Revolution in France and the First Letter on a Regicide Peace”, p.12, Cambridge University Press

Never despair, but if you do, work on in despair.

Inspiring, Sad, Perseverance

It is the interest of the commercial world that wealth should be found everywhere.

Business, World, Wealth

Edmund Burke, Harvey C. Mansfield (1984). “Selected Letters of Edmund Burke”, p.406, University of Chicago Press

Men have no right to what is not reasonable, and to what is not for their benefit.

Men, Benefits, Conservative

Edmund Burke (1855). “The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke”, p.335

Adversity is a severe instructor, set over us by one who knows us better than we do ourselves.

Adversity, Instructors, Knows

The nerve that never relaxes, the eye that never blanches, the thought that never wanders, the purpose that never wavers - these are the masters of victory.

Perseverance, Eye, Victory

Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation.

Inspirational, Life, Art

Nothing in progression can rest on its original plan. We may as well think of rocking a grown man in the cradle of an infant.

Men, Thinking, Design

'Letter to the Sheriffs of Bristol' (1777) p. 59

Education is a nation's cheapest defence

Historical, Defence, Nations

He that struggles with us strengthens our nerves, and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper.

Inspirational, Life, Education

Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790)

Too much idleness, I have observed, fills up a man's time more completely and leaves him less his own master, than any sort of employment whatsoever

Men, Too Much, Masters

Edmund Burke (1852). “The Works and Correspondence Of...Edmund Burke”, p.77

There is a wide difference between admiration and love. The sublime, which is the cause of the former, always dwells on great objects and terrible; the latter on small ones and pleasing; we submit to what we admire, but we love what submits to us: in one case we are forced, in the other, we are flattered, into compliance.

Differences, Sublime, And Love

Edmund Burke (1824). “A Philosophical Inquiry Into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful”, p.118

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