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Edmund Burke Quotes - Page 7

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Good order is the foundation of all things.

Good order is the foundation of all things.

Order, Foundation, Organize

'Reflections on the Revolution in France' (1790) p. 351

We are in a war of a peculiar nature. It is not with an ordinary community, which is hostile or friendly as passion or as interest may veer about: not with a state which makes war through wantonness, and abandons it through lassitude. We are at war with a system, which by its essence, is inimical to all other governments, and which makes peace or war, as peace and war may best contribute to their subversion. It is with an armed doctrine that we are at war. It has, by its essence, a faction of opinion, and of interest, and of enthusiasm, in every country.

Country, War, Passion

The marketplace obliges men, whether they will or not, in pursuing their own selfish interests, to connect the general good with their own individual success.

Success, Selfish, Men

If the prudence of reserve and decorum dictates silence in some circumstances, in others prudence of a higher order may justify us in speaking our thoughts.

Order, Silence, May

Edmund Burke (1912). “Reflections on the French Revolution”, p.9, CUP Archive

The effect of liberty to individuals is that they may do what they please: we ought to see what it will please them to do, before we risk congratulations.

Congratulations, Risk, Liberty

Edmund Burke (1999). “The Portable Edmund Burke”, p.396, Penguin

The public interest requires doing today those things that men of intelligence and good will would wish, five or ten years hence, had been done.

Men, Years, Wish

Justice is itself the great standing policy of civil society; and any eminent departure from it, under any circumstances, lies under the suspicion of being no policy at all.

Lying, Justice, Abortion

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.230

Genuine simplicity of heart is a healing and cementing principle.

Healing, Heart, Simplicity

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.43

Facts are to the mind what food is to the body. On the due digestion of the former depend the strength and wisdom of the one, just as vigor and health depend on the other. The wisest in council, the ablest in debate, and the most agreeable companion in the commerce of human life, is that man who has assimilated to his understanding the greatest number of facts.

Men, Numbers, Understanding

Whenever our neighbour's house is on fire, it cannot be amiss for the engines to play a little on our own.

Fire, Play, House

'Reflections on the Revolution in France' (1790) p. 10

Liberty must be limited in order to be possessed.

Order, Liberty, Possessed

'Letter to the Sheriffs of Bristol' (1777) p. 55

If the people are happy, united, wealthy, and powerful, we presume the rest. We conclude that to be good from whence good is derived.

Powerful, People, Be Good

Edmund Burke (1852). “The Works and Correspondance of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke”, p.292

There is nothing that God has judged good for us that He has not given us the means to accomplish, both in the natural and the moral world.

Mean, World, Moral

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.226

As mankind becomes more enlightened to know their real interests, they will esteem the value of agriculture; they will find it in their natural--their destined occupation.

Real, Agriculture, Occupation

Prudence is a quality incompatible with vice, and can never be effectively enlisted in its cause.

Quality, Vices, Causes

Learning will be cast into the mire and trodden down under the hoofs of a swinish multitude.

Learning, Science, Casts

'Reflections on the Revolution in France' (1790) p. 117

Humanity cannot be degraded by humiliation.

Humility, Humanity, Humiliation

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.170

A kind Providence has placed in our breasts a hatred of the unjust and cruel, in order that we may preserve ourselves from cruelty and injustice. They who bear cruelty, are accomplices in it. The pretended gentleness which excludes that charitable rancour, produces an indifference which is half an approbation. They never will love where they ought to love, who do not hate where they ought to hate.

Hate, Order, Hatred

Edmund Burke (1842). “The Works of the Right Hon. Edmund Burke, with a biographical and critical introduction, by Henry Rogers, and portrait after Sir Joshua Reynolds”, p.377

My hold of the colonies is in the close affection which grows from common names, from kindred blood, from similar privileges, and equal protection. These are ties which, though light as air, are as strong as links of iron.

Strong, Names, Iron

Edmund Burke (2005). “Burke, Select Works”, p.231, The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd.

All virtue which is impracticable is spurious.

Virtue

Edmund Burke (1852). “The Works and Correspondence of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke”, p.173

Between craft and credulity, the voice of reason is stifled.

Voice, Crafts, Reason

'Letter to the Sheriffs of Bristol' (1777) p. 34

The great Error of our Nature is, not to know where to stop, not to be satisfied with any reasonable Acquirement; not to compound with our Condition; but to lose all we have gained by an insatiable Pursuit after more.

Errors, Conservative, Pursuit

Edmund Burke (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Edmund Burke (Illustrated)”, p.23, Delphi Classics

When any work seems to have required immense force and labor to effect it, the idea is grand.

Ideas, Force, Labor

Edmund Burke (2012). “A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful”, p.57, Courier Corporation

In a free country every man thinks he has a concern in all public matters,--that he has a right to form and a right to deliver an opinion on them. This it is that fills countries with men of ability in all stations.

Country, Freedom, Men

In on summer they have done their business... they have completely pulled down to the ground their monarchy, their church, their nobility, their law, their revenue, their army, their navy, their commerce, their arts, and their manufactures... destroyed all balances and counterpoises which serve to fix a state and give it steady direction, and then they melted down the whole into one incongrous mass of mob and democracy... the people, along with their political servitude, have thrown off the yoke of law and morals.

Summer, Art, Army

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