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Edmund Burke Quotes - Page 8

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The arrogance of age must submit to be taught by youth.

The arrogance of age must submit to be taught by youth.

Time, Arrogance Of Youth, Age

Edmund Burke, Harvey C. Mansfield (1984). “Selected Letters of Edmund Burke”, p.107, University of Chicago Press

Government is the exercise of all the great qualities of the human mind.

Exercise, Government, Mind

Edmund Burke (1816). “The Speeches of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke in the House of Commons and in Westminster Hall: In Four Volumes”, p.213

The grave is a common treasury, to which we must all be taken.

Taken, Common, Graves

The true way to mourn the dead is to take care of the living who belong to them.

Mourning, Care, Way

Edmund Burke “The Correspondence of Edmund Burke”, CUP Archive

Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows, and of lending existence to nothing.

Art, Poetry, Shadow

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.511

One that confounds good and evil is an enemy to good.

Evil, Enemy, Good And Evil

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

Old religious factions are volcanoes burned out; on the lava and ashes and squalid scoriae of old eruptions grow the peaceful olive, the cheering vine and the sustaining corn.

Religious, Cheer, Volcanoes

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.417

Pleasure of every kind quickly satisfies.

Kind, Pleasure

Edmund Burke (1826). “The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke”, p.93

I do not know how to wish success to those whose Victory is to separate from us a large and noble part of our Empire. Still less do I wish success to injustice, oppression and absurdity.

Victory, Wish, Noble

Mary Leadbeater, Edmund Burke, Melesina Chenevix St. George Trench, George Crabbe (1862). “The Leadbeater Papers: Unpublished letters of Edmund Burke, and the correspondence of Mrs. Richard Trench and Rev. George Crabbe”, p.126

What is it we all seek for in an election? To answer its real purposes, you must first possess the means of knowing the fitness of your man; and then you must retain some hold upon him by personal obligation or dependence.

Real, Mean, Men

Edmund Burke (1912). “Reflections on the French Revolution”, p.192, CUP Archive

Not men but measures a sort of charm by which many people get loose from every honorable engagement.

Sweet, Men, People

'Thoughts on the Cause of the Present Discontents' (1770) p. 75

To complain of the age we live in, to murmur at the present possessors of power, to lament the past, to conceive extravagant hopes of the future, are the common dispositions of the greatest part of mankind.

Past, Age, Complaining

'Thoughts on the Cause of the Present Discontents' (1770) p. 4

Freedom and not servitude is the cure of anarchy; as religion, and not atheism, is the true remedy of superstition.

Freedom, Atheism, Superstitions

Speech 'On Conciliation with America' 22 March 1775

Applaud us when we run, Console us when we fall, Cheer us when we recover.

Motivational, Running, Cheer

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.134

Obstinacy, sir, is certainly a great vice; and in the changeful state of political affairs it is frequently the cause of great mischief. It happens, however, very unfortunately, that almost the whole line of the great and masculine virtues--constancy, gravity, magnanimity, fortitude, fidelity, and firmness--are closely allied to this disagreeable quality, of which you have so just an abhorrence; and in their excess all these virtues very easily fall into it.

Fall, Political, Quality

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.87

Adversity is a severe instructor, set over us by one who knows us better than we do ourselves, as he loves us better too. He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper. This conflict with difficulty makes us acquainted with our object, and compels us to consider it in all its relations. It will not suffer us to be superficial.

Adversity, Skills, Challenges

Passion for fame: A passion which is the instinct of all great souls.

Passion, Soul, Intuition

Edmund Burke, John Shebbeare (1776). “An Answer to the Printed Speech of Edmund Burke, Esq; spoken in the House of Commons, April 19, 1774, etc. By John Shebbeare”, p.191

The pride of men will not often suffer reason to have scope until it can be no longer of service.

Pride, Men, Advice

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

A jealous lover lights his torch from the firebrand of the fiend.

Jealousy, Light, Torches

All writers on the science of policy are agreed, and they agree with experience, that all governments must frequently infringe the rules of justice to support themselves; that truth must give way to dissimulation, honesty to convenience, and humanity itself to the reigning of interest. The whole of this mystery of iniquity is called the reason of state.

Honesty, Government, Giving

Edmund Burke (1858). “The Inherent Evils of All State Governments Demonstrated; Being a Reprint of ... “A Vindication of Natural Society.” With Notes and an Appendix, Etc”, p.17

All that needs to be done for evil to prevail is good men doing nothing.

Men, Evil, Good Man

A nation without means of reform is without means of survival.

Mean, Survival, Reform

You had that action and counteraction which, in the natural and in the political world, from the reciprocal struggle of discordant powers draws out the harmony of the universe.

Struggle, Political, World

Edmund Burke (1804). “Maxims and opinions, moral, political and economical, with characters, from the works of ... Edmund Burke”, p.148

The tribunal of conscience exists independent of edicts and decrees.

Independent, Decree, Tribunals

Taxing is an easy business. Any projector can contrive new compositions, any bungler can add to the old.

Business, Add, Taxation

Edmund Burke (1807). “Works: 1st American from the Last London Ed”, p.151

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