Edmund Burke Quotes about Country

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

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

Edmund Burke

Love, Country, Patriotic

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

To be attached to the subdivision, to love the little platoon we belong to in society, is the first principle (the germ as it were) of public affections. It is the first link in the series by which we proceed toward a love to our country and to mankind. The interest of that portion of social arrangement is a trust in the hands of all those who compose it; and as none but bad men would justify it in abuse, none but traitors would barter it away for their own personal advantage.

Edmund Burke

Country, Peace, War

Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790)

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.

Edmund Burke

Country, War, Men

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

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.

Edmund Burke

Country, War, Passion

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.

Edmund Burke

Country, Freedom, Men

I cannot conceive how any man can have brought himself to that pitch of presumption, to consider his country as nothing but carte blanche, upon which he may scribble whatever he pleases.

Edmund Burke

Country, Men, May

Edmund Burke (2012). “Reflections on the Revolution in France”, p.158, Courier Corporation

But a good patriot, and a true politician, always considers how he shall make the most of the existing materials of his country. A disposition, to preserve, and an ability to improve, taken together, would be my standard of a statesman. Everything else is vulgar in the conception, perilous in the execution.

Edmund Burke

Country, Taken, Together

Edmund Burke (1852). “The Works and Correspondance of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke”, p.280

Under the pressure of the cares and sorrows of our mortal condition, men have at all times, and in all countries, called in some physical aid to their moral consolations - wine, beer, opium, brandy, or tobacco.

Edmund Burke

Country, Wine, Beer

Edmund Burke (1834). “The works of ... Edmund Burke”, p.256

There ought to be system of manners in every nation which a well-formed mind would be disposed to relish. To make us love our country, our country ought to be lovely.

Edmund Burke

Country, Lovely, Mind

Edmund Burke (1814). “Reflections on the Revolution in France and on the Proceedings in Certain Societies in London Relative to that Event”, p.79

I am not one of those who think that the people are never in the wrong. They have been so, frequently and outrageously, both in other countries and in this. But I do say that in all disputes between them and their rulers, the presumption is at least upon a par in favour of the people.

Edmund Burke

Country, Thinking, People

'Thoughts on the Cause of the Present Discontents' (1770) p. 7

In this choice of inheritance we have given to our frame of polity the image of a relation in blood; binding up the constitution of our country with our dearest domestic ties; adopting our fundamental laws into the bosom of our family affections; keeping inseparable and cherishing with the warmth of all their combined and mutually reflected charities, our state, our hearths, our sepulchres, and our altars.

Edmund Burke

Country, War, Blood

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.49

I would rather sleep in the southern corner of a little country churchyard than in the tomb of the Capulets.

Edmund Burke

Country, Sleep, Southern

Edmund Burke, Arthur P.I. Samuels (2014). “The Early Life Correspondence and Writings of The Rt. Hon. Edmund Burke”, p.221, Cambridge University Press