| 115 Famous Quotes by Edmund Burke
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“That chastity of honour which felt a stain like a wound.”
Chastity Quotes Source: Reflections on the Revolution in France
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“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.”
Justice Quotes Source: Reflections on the Revolution in France
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“It looks to me to be narrow and pedantic to apply the ordinary
ideas of criminal justice to this great public contest. I do not
know the method of drawing up an indictment against a whole
people.”
Justice Quotes Source: Speech on Conciliation with America (Works, vol. II, p. 136)
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“The men of England--the men, I mean of light and leading in
England.”
England Quotes Source: Reflections on the Revolution in France
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“When we speak of the commerce with our colonies, fiction lags
after truth, invention is unfruitful, and imagination cold and
barren.”
Business Quotes Source: Speech on the Conciliation of America
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“Writers, especially when they act in a body and with one
direction, have great influence on the public mind.”
Authorship Quotes Source: Reflections on the Revolution in France
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“You can never plan the future by the past.”
Future Quotes Source: Letter to a Member of the National Assembly (vol. IV, p. 55)
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“The individual is foolish; the multitude, for the moment is
foolish, when they act without deliberation; but the species is
wise, and, when time is given to it, as a species it always acts
right.”
Public Quotes Source: in a speech, Reform of Representation in the House of Commons, May 7, 1782
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“The tyranny of a multitude is a multiplied tyranny.”
Public Quotes Source: To Thomas Mercer
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“The worthy gentleman [Mr. Coombe], who has been snatched from us
at the moment of the election, and in the middle of the contest,
while his desires were as warm, and his hopes as eager as ours,
has feelingly told us, what shadows we are, and what shadows we
pursue.”
Shadows Quotes Source: in a speech at Bristol on declining the poll
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“All government--indeed, every human benefit and enjoyment, every
virtue and every prudent act--is founded on compromise and
barter.”
Government Quotes Source: Second Speech on Conciliation with America
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“And having looked to Government for bread, on the very first
scarcity they will turn and bite the hand that fed them.”
Government Quotes Source: Thoughts and Details on Scarcity (vol. V, p. 156)
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“When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will
fall, one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible
struggle.”
Government Quotes Source: Thoughts on the Cause of the Present Discontent
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“He was not merely a chip of the old Block, but the old Block
itself.”
Character Quotes Source: About Wm. Pitt-Wraxall's Memoirs (vol. II, p. 342)
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“All men that are ruined, are ruined on the side of their natural
propensities.”
Character Quotes Source: Letters--Letter I--On a Regicide Peace
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“Resolved to die in the last dyke of prevarication.”
Lying Quotes Source: Impeachment of Warren Hastings
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“Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no
other.”
Example Quotes Source: Letter I--On a Regicide Peace (vol. V, p. 331)
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“Illustrious Predecessor.”
Example Quotes Source: Thoughts on the Cause of the Present Discontents
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“Chapter of accidents.”
Accident Quotes Source: Notes for Speeches (vol. II, p. 426), (1852 edition)
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“There is however a limit at which forbearance ceases to be a
virtue.”
Patience Quotes Source: Observations on a Late Publication on the Present State of the Nation
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“They made and recorded a sort of institute and digest of anarchy,
called the rights of man.”
Rights Quotes Source: On the Army Estimates (vol. III, p. 221)
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“The number is certainly the cause. The apparent disorder
augments the grandeur, for the appearance of care is highly
contrary to our ideas of magnificence. Besides, the stars lie in
such apparent confusion, as makes it impossible on ordinary
occasion to reckon them. This gives them the advantage of a sort
of infinity.”
Stars Quotes Source: On the Sublime and the Beautiful--Magnificence
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“The cold neutrality of an impartial judge.”
Judges Quotes Source: Preface to Brissot's Address (vol. V, p. 67)
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“It is the function of a judge not to make but to declare the law,
according to the golden mete-wand of the law and not by the
crooked cord of discretion.”
Judges Quotes Source: Preface to Brissot's Address (vol. V, p. 67)
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“Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and
Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.”
Judges Quotes Source: Preface to Brissot's Address (vol. V, p. 67)
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