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.
He was not merely a chip of the old Block, but the old Block itself.
On Pitt’s First Speech (26 February 1781), from Wraxall’s Memoirs, First Series, vol. i. p. 342- Second Speech on Conciliation with America (1775)
- From the Tracts Relative to the Laws Against Popery in Ireland (c. 1766), not published during Burke’s lifetime.
- Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790)
- Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790)
- Speech on the Petition of the Unitarians (11 May 1792), volume vii, p. 50
- Letter to Thomas Mercer
- Letters On a Regicide Peace (1796), No. 3
- Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790), Volume iii, p. 332
Politics and the pulpit are terms that have little agreement.
Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790)There is, however, a limit at which forbearance ceases to be a virtue.
Observations on a Late Publication on the Present State of the Nation (1769), volume i, p. 273A very great part of the mischiefs that vex the world arises from words.
Letter to Richard Burke post 19 February 1792 (1792), in R. B. McDowell and William B. Todd (eds), The Writings and Speeches of Edmund Burke, Vol. 9: I: The Revolutionary War, 1794-1797All men that are ruined, are ruined on the side of their natural propensities.
Letters On a Regicide Peace (1796), No. 1, volume v, p. 286To tax and to please, no more than to love and to be wise, is not given to men.
First Speech on the Conciliation with America (1774)The first and the simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind is Curiosity.
A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful (1757)
