Edmund Burke B. 1729 – D. 1797
Edmund Burke was an Irish statesman and philosopher. Born in Dublin, Burke served as a member of parliament between 1766 and 1794 in the House of Commons of Great Britain with the Whig Party after moving to London in 1750. Wikipedia
Edmund Burke Quotes:
“The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.” – Edmund Burke
“Those who don’t know history are doomed to repeat it.” – Edmund Burke
“The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion.” – Edmund Burke
“Rudeness is the weak man’s imitation of strength.” – Edmund Burke
“Our patience will achieve more than our force.” – Edmund Burke
“The greatest gift is a passion for reading.” – Edmund Burke
“Men are qualified for civil liberty in exact proportion to their disposition to put moral chains upon their appetites.” – Edmund Burke
“Whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither, in my opinion, is safe.” – Edmund Burke
“Those who attempt to level, never equalize.” – Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France
“The only thing necessary for the continuance of evil is for a good man to do nothing.” – Edmond Burke
“Society is a partnership of the dead, the living and the unborn.” – Edmund Burke
“There is no safety for honest men except by believing all possible evil of evil men.” – Edmund Burke
“Among a people generally corrupt, liberty cannot long exist.” – Edmund Burke
“Rage and phrenzy will pull down more in half an hour, than prudence, deliberation, and foresight can build up in an hundred years.” – Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France
“It is ordained in the eternal constitution of things, that men of intemperate minds cannot be free. Their passions forge their fetters.” – Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France
“Liberty does not exist in the absence of morality.” – Edmund Burke
“Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.” [Preface to Brissot’s Address to His Constituents (1794)] – Edmund Burke, On Empire, Liberty, and Reform: Speeches and Letters
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