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Edmund Burke Quotes - Page 6

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All persons possessing any portion of power ought to be strongly and awfully impressed with an idea that they act in trust, and that they are to account for their conduct in that trust to the one great Master, Author,

All persons possessing any portion of power ought to be strongly and awfully impressed with an idea that they act in trust, and that they are to account for their conduct in that trust to the one great Master, Author, and Founder of society.

Trust, Power, Ideas

Edmund Burke (1860). “The Works of Edmund Burke: With a Memoir”, p.496

Prudence is not only the first in rank of the virtues political and moral, but she is the director and regulator, the standard of them all.

Political, Directors, Firsts

Edmund Burke (1804). “Maxims and opinions, moral, political and economical, with characters, from the works of ... Edmund Burke”, p.53

The tyranny of a multitude is a multiplied tyranny.

Tyrants, Tyranny, Multitudes

George Croly, Edmund Burke (1840). “A Memoir of the Political Life of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke: With Extracts from His Writings”, p.11

Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other.

Children, School, Example

'Letters on a Regicide Peace' Letter 1 (1796)

One source of the sublime is infinity.

Sublime, Infinity, Source

Religious persecution may shield itself under the guise of a mistaken and over-zealous piety.

Religious, Atheism, Zealous

Speech, 18 February 1788, in E. A. Bond (ed.) 'Speeches...in the Trial of Warren Hastings' (1859) vol. 1, p. 104

There is a boundary to men's passions when they act from feelings; but none when they are under the influence of imagination.

Peace, Passion, Creativity

Edmund Burke (1826). “The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke”, p.422

When a great man has some one object in view to be achieved in a given time, it may be absolutely necessary for him to walk out of all the common roads.

Motivational, Time, Men

Edmund Burke (1853). “The speeches of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke: with memoir and historical introductions”, p.213

Art is a partnership not only between those who are living but between those who are dead and those who are yet to be born.

Art, Partnership, Born

1790 Reflections on the Revolution in France.

Politics ought to be adjusted not to human reasonings but to human nature, of which reason is but a part and by no means the greatest part.

Mean, Human Nature, Reason

Edmund Burke (1804). “Maxims and opinions, moral, political and economical, with characters, from the works of ... Edmund Burke”, p.52

The great must submit to the dominion of prudence and of virtue, or none will long submit to the dominion of the great.

Greatness, Long, Dominion

Edmund Burke (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Edmund Burke (Illustrated)”, p.3765, Delphi Classics

The only training for the heroic is the mundane.

Training, Heroic, Mundane

For my part, I am convinced that the method of teaching which approaches most nearly to the method of investigation is incomparably the best; since, not content with serving up a few barren and lifeless truths, it leads to the stock on which they grew.

Teaching, Barren, Investigation

Edmund Burke (1824). “A Philosophical Inquiry Into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful”, p.3

Nothing is so fatal to religion as indifference.

Indifference

Edmund Burke (1852). “The Works and Correspondence Of...Edmund Burke”, p.41

A disposition to preserve, and an ability to improve, taken together, would be my standard of a statesman.

Taken, Together, Would Be

Edmund Burke (1798). “The Beauties of the Late Right Hon. Edmund Burke: Selected from the Writings, &c. of that Extraordinary Man, Alphabetically Arranged ... to which is Prefixed, a Sketch of the Life, with Some Original Anecdotes of Mr. Burke”, p.383

It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact.

Nature, Greatness, Statistics

Speech 'On American Taxation' 19 April 1774

Turn over a new leaf.

Leafs, Turns

James Prior, Edmund Burke (1826). “Memoir of the Life and Character of the Right Hon. Edmund Burke: With Specimens of His Poetry and Letters and an Estimate of His Genius and Talents, Compared with Those of His Great Contemporaries. Enlarged to Two Volumes”, p.422

I cannot help concurring with the opinion that an absolute democracy, no more than absolute monarchy, is to be reckoned among the legitimate forms of government.

Government, Democracy, Helping

Edmund Burke (1963). “Edmund Burke: Selected Writings and Speeches”, p.583, Transaction Publishers

True religion is the foundation of society. When that is once shaken by contempt, the whole fabric cannot be stable nor lasting.

Religion, Foundation, Fabric

Man is by his constitution a religious animal.

Religious, Animal, Men

'Reflections on the Revolution in France' (1790) p. 135.

Responsibility prevents crimes.

Responsibility, Prison, Crime

Edmund Burke (1852). “The Works and Correspondance of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke”, p.317

Nothing, indeed, but the possession of some power can with any certainty discover what at the bottom is the true character of any man.

Character, Power, Men

Edmund Burke (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Edmund Burke (Illustrated)”, p.3876, Delphi Classics

What shadows we are, and what shadows we pursue!

Life, Shadow, Pursue

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.169

The blood of man should never be shed but to redeem the blood of man. It is well shed for our family, for our friends, for our God, for our country, for our kind. The rest is vanity; the rest is crime.

Country, War, Men

Edmund Burke (1855). “The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke”, p.204

The most important of all revolutions, a revolution in sentiments, manners and moral opinions.

Important, Revolution, Opinion

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.119

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