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.
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 II- Second Speech on Conciliation with America (1775)
- Speech on the Petition of the Unitarians (11 May 1792), volume vii, p. 50
