Edmund Burke Quotes - Page 16

• We set ourselves to bite the hand that feeds us.

  Edmund Burke

  Hands, Bites, Ingratitude

  Thoughts on the Cause of the Present Discontents (1770)

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• There are three estates in Parliament but in the Reporters' Gallery yonder there sits a Fourth Estate more important far than they all. It is not a figure of speech or witty saying, it is a literal fact, very momentous to us in these times.

  Edmund Burke

  Witty, Knowledge, Important

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• El amor al lucro, aunque a veces llevado a un exceso ridículo, a un exceso vicioso, es la gran causa de la prosperidad de todos los Estados.

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  Excess, Causes, Ridiculous

  Edmund Burke (2008). “The Writings and Speeches of Edmund Burke”, p.455, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Laws are commanded to hold their tongues among arms; and tribunals fall to the ground with the peace they are no longer able to uphold.

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  War, Fall, Law

  Edmund Burke (2014). “Revolutionary Writings: Reflections on the Revolution in France and the First Letter on a Regicide Peace”, p.31, Cambridge University Press

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• Tyrants seldom want pretexts.

  Edmund Burke

  Paz, guerra, tiranos

  'Letter to a Member of the National Assembly' (1791) p. 25

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• Many of the greatest tyrants on the records of history have begun their reigns in the fairest manner. But the truth is, this unnatural power corrupts both the heart and the understanding.

  Edmund Burke

  Heart, Tyrants, Political

  Edmund Burke (1858). “The Inherent Evils of All State Governments Demonstrated; Being a Reprint of ... “A Vindication of Natural Society.” With Notes and an Appendix, Etc”, p.19

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• There is a time when the hoary head of inveterate abuse will neither draw reverence nor obtain protection.

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  Abuse, Protection, Reverence

  Edmund Burke, James BURKE (Abogado.) (1854). "The Speeches of the Right Hon. Edmund Burke, with Memoir and Historical Introductions. Por James Burke", p.178

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• It is for the most part in our skill in manners, and in the observations of time and place and of decency in general, that what is called taste by way of distinction consists; and which is in reality no other than a more refined judgment.

  Edmund Burke

  Reality, Skills, Way

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• The poorest being that crawls on earth, contending to save itself from injustice and oppression, is an object respectable in the eyes of God and man.

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  Ojo, Hombres, Tierra

  Edmund Burke (1826). “The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke”, p.93

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• I despair of ever receiving the same degree of pleasure from the most exalted performances of genius which I felt in childhood from pieces which my present judgment regards as trifling and contemptible.

  Edmund Burke

  Childhood, Romance, Despair

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• In such a strait the wisest may well be perplexed and the boldest staggered.

  Edmund Burke

  Wisdom, May, Wells

  Edmund Burke (1852). “The Works and Correspondence of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke”, p.161

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• It is hard to say whether doctors of law or divinity have made the greater advances in the lucrative business of mystery.

  Edmund Burke

  Doctors, Law, Justice

  Edmund Burke, Ian Harris (1993). “Pre-Revolutionary Writings”, p.50, Cambridge University Press

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• Man acts from adequate motives relative to his interest, and not on metaphysical speculations.

  Edmund Burke

  Men, Adequate, Metaphysical

  Edmund Burke, James BURKE (Barrister-at-Law.) (1854). “The Speeches of the Right Hon. Edmund Burke, with Memoir and Historical Introductions. By James Burke”, p.115

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• The esteem of wise and good men is the greatest of all temporal encouragements to virtue; and it is a mark of an abandoned spirit to have no regard to it.

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  Wise, Encouragement, Good Man

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• In effect, to follow, not to force the public inclination; to give a direction, a form, a technical dress, and a specific sanction, to the general sense of the community, is the true end of legislature.

  Edmund Burke

  Law, Giving, Community

  Edmund Burke (1999). “The Portable Edmund Burke”, p.285, Penguin

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• Abstract liberty, like other mere abstractions, is not to be found.

  Edmund Burke

  Liberty, Abstract, Found

  Discurso "Sobre la conciliación con América" 22 de marzo de 1775

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• Politics and the pulpit are terms that have little agreement. No sound ought to be heard in the church but the healing voice of Christian charity. The cause of civil liberty and civil government gains as little as that of religion by this confusion of duties. Those who quit their proper character to assume what does not belong to them are, for the greater part, ignorant both of the character they leave and of the character they assume.

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  Christian, Character, Healing

  Edmund Burke (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Edmund Burke (Illustrated)”, p.1388, Delphi Classics

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• I do ride contend against the advantages of distrust. In the world we live in, it is but too necessary. Some of old called it the very sinews of discretion.

  Edmund Burke

  World, Advantage, Distrust

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• To prove that the Americans ought not to be free, we are obliged to deprecate the value of freedom itself.

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  Freedom, Prove, Ought

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• El que recurre a la ayuda de un entendimiento igual duplica el suyo; y el que se beneficia de un entendimiento superior eleva sus facultades a la altura de la posición superior con la que se une.

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  Advice, Understanding, Levels

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• To give freedom is still more easy. It is not necessary to guide; it only requires to let go the rein. But to form a free government; that is, to temper together these opposite elements of liberty and restraint in one work, requires much thought, deep reflection, a sagacious, powerful, and combining mind.

  Edmund Burke

  Letting Go, Powerful, Reflection

  Edmund Burke (1912). “Reflections on the French Revolution”, p.251, CUP Archive

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• Gran parte del mobiliario de la antigua tiranía está hecho jirones; el resto está totalmente pasado de moda.

  Edmund Burke

  Moda, Trapos, Muebles

  Edmund Burke (1834). "The Works of the Right Hon. Edmund Burke: With a Biographical and Critical Introduction, and Portrait After Sir Joshua Reynolds", p.126

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• ¿Es destruyendo y derribando como se demuestra la habilidad? El entendimiento más superficial, la mano más ruda, están más que a la altura de esa tarea.

  Edmund Burke

  Hands, Skills, Understanding

  Edmund Burke (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Edmund Burke (Illustrated)”, p.1511, Delphi Classics

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• I decline the election. It has ever been my rule through life, to observe a proportion between my efforts and my objects. I have never been remarkable for a bold, active, and sanguine pursuit of advantages that are personal to myself.

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  Effort, Election, Proportion

  Edmund Burke (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Edmund Burke (Illustrated)”, p.2600, Delphi Classics

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• Neither the few nor the many have a right to act merely by their will, in any matter connected with duty, trust, engagement, or obligation.

  Edmund Burke

  Matter, Engagement, Duty

  Edmund Burke (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Edmund Burke (Illustrated)”, p.1640, Delphi Classics

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