Edmund Burke1729–1797The quotations of
Edmund Burke
Anglo-Irish statesman, political theorist and conservative philosopher
1729–1797
57 quotes, most often on Government, Religion and Politics.
All that is required for evil to prevail is for good men to do nothing.
No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.
A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful (1757), Part II Section IIThe people never give up their liberties but under some delusion.
Speech at a County Meeting of Buckinghamshire (1784)- Thoughts on the Cause of the Present Discontents (1770), Volume i, p. 526
- Observations on a Late Publication on the Present State of the Nation (1769)
- Letter to the Sheriffs of Bristol (1777)
Reading without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other.
Letters On a Regicide Peace (1796), No. 1, volume v, p. 331If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free; if our wealth commands us, we are poor indeed.
Letters On a Regicide Peace (1796), No. 1An event has happened, upon which it is difficult to speak, and impossible to be silent.
Speech on the sixth article of charge in the impeachment of Warren Hastings (5 May 1789), quoted in The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Volume the Tenth (1899), p. 306- Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790), Volume iii, p. 453
- Letter to William Smith, Member of the Irish Parliament (29 January 1795), quoted in R. B. McDowell (ed.), The Correspondence of Edmund Burke, Volume VIII: September 1794–April 1796 (1969), p. 128
- Speech at Bristol Previous to the Election (6 September 1780), quoted in The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. II (1855), p. 148
Often credited to Edmund Burke
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