Edmund Burke Quotes About Affairs

• I find along with many virtues in my countrymen there is a jealousy, a soreness, and readiness to take offence, as if they were the most helpless and impotent of mankind, and yet a violence... and a boistrousness in their resentment, as if they had been puffed up with the highest prosperity and power. they will not only be served, but it must also be in their own way and on their own principles and even in words and language that they liked... which renders it very difficult for a plain unguarded man as I am to have anything to do with them or their affairs.

  Edmund Burke

  Men, History, Way

• Hay una especie de entusiasmo en todos los proyectistas, absolutamente necesario para sus asuntos, que los hace a prueba de los retrasos más fatigosos, de las decepciones más mortificantes, de los insultos más chocantes; y, lo que es más severo que todo, del juicio presuntuoso de los ignorantes sobre sus designios.

  Edmund Burke

  Decepción, Diseño, Juicio

  "The Works of Edmund Burke in Nine Volumes", Vol. IX, Boston: Little, Brown, 1839.

• Obstinacy, sir, is certainly a great vice; and in the changeful state of political affairs it is frequently the cause of great mischief. It happens, however, very unfortunately, that almost the whole line of the great and masculine virtues--constancy, gravity, magnanimity, fortitude, fidelity, and firmness--are closely allied to this disagreeable quality, of which you have so just an abhorrence; and in their excess all these virtues very easily fall into it.

  Edmund Burke

  Fall, Political, Quality

  William Pitt (Conde de Chatham), Edmund Burke, Thomas Erskine Barón de Erskine, Jean Gabriel Peltier (1834). "Discursos célebres de Chatham, Burke y Erskine: To which is Added the Arguement of Mr. Mackintosh in the Case of Peltier", p.87

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