Edmund Burke Quotes - Page 19

• The men of England,- the men, I mean, of light and leading in England.

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  Leadership, Mean, Men

  Edmund Burke (2010). “On Taste on the Sublime and Beautiful, Reflections on the Revolution, A Letter to a Noble Lord”, p.249, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Tell me what are the prevailing sentiments that occupy the minds of your young peoples, and I will tell you what is to be the character of the next generation.

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  Character, Civilization, Mind

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• Society is indeed a contract. Subordinate contracts for objects of mere occasional interest may be dissolved at pleasure - but the state ought not to be considered as nothing better than a partnership agreement in a trade of pepper and coffee, calico, or tobacco, or some other such low concern, to be taken up for a little temporary interest, and to be dissolved by the fancy of the parties. It is to be looked on with other reverence, because it is not a partnership in things subservient only to the gross animal existence of a temporary and perishable nature.

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  Coffee, Taken, Party

  Edmund Burke (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Edmund Burke (Illustrated)”, p.1455, Delphi Classics

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• La nobleza es un elegante ornamento del orden civil. Es el capitel corintio de la sociedad pulida.

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  Order, Society, Aristocracy

  'Reflections on the Revolution in France' (1790) p. 205

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• The traveller has reached the end of the journey!

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  Journey, Dhammapada, Ends

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• The science of constructing a commonwealth, or renovating it, or reforming it, is, like every other experimental science, not to be taught a priori. Nor is it a short experience that can instruct us in that practical science, because the real effects of moral causes are not always immediate.

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  Real, Practice, Political

  Edmund Burke (1811). “Maxims and opinions, moral, political and economical, with characters, from the works of ... Edmund Burke”, p.80

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• It has all the contortions of the sibyl without the inspiration.

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  Inspiración

  "Life of Burke". Book by Matthew Prior,

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• Some decent regulated pre-eminence, some preference (not exclusive appropriation) given to birth, is neither unnatural, nor unjust, nor impolite.

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  Unjust, Ancestry, Birth

  "Reflections on the Revolution in France". Political pamphlet by Edmund Burke, November 1790.

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• My vigour relents. I pardon something to the spirit of liberty.

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  Liberty, Spirit, Pardon

  Edmund Burke (1948). “Selected Prose”

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• It is undoubtedly true, though it may seem paradoxical,--but, in general, those who are habitually employed in finding and displaying faults are unqualified for the work of reformation.

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  May, Unqualified, Faults

  Edmund Burke (1852). “The works and correspondence of...Edmund Burke”, p.291

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• Jacobinism is the revolt of the enterprising talents of a country against its property.

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  Country, Talent, Revolt

  Edmund Burke (1804). “Maxims and opinions, moral, political and economical, with characters, from the works of ... Edmund Burke”, p.158

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• Todos esos ejemplos que se encuentran en la historia, ya sean reales o fabulosos, de un espíritu público dudoso, ante el cual la moralidad se desconcierta, la razón se tambalea, y del cual la Naturaleza asustada retrocede, son sus ejemplos elegidos y casi únicos para la instrucción de su juventud.

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  Naturaleza, Real, Histórico

  Edmund Burke (1999). "The Portable Edmund Burke", p.484, Penguin

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• No man can mortgage his injustice as a pawn for his fidelity.

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  Men, Pawns, Injustice

  George Croly, Edmund Burke (1840). “A Memoir of the Political Life of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke: With Extracts from His Writings”, p.82

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• Una definición puede ser muy exacta y, sin embargo, aportar muy poca información sobre la naturaleza de la cosa definida.

  Edmund Burke

  May, Definitions, Littles

  Edmund Burke (1839). “The Works of Edmund Burke”, p.58

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• The religion most prevalent in our northern colonies is a refinement on the principles of resistance: it is the dissidence of dissent, and the protestantism of the Protestant religion.

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  Religion, Principles, Resistance

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

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• An extreme rigor is sure to arm everything against it.

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  Arms, Oppression, Rigor

  Edmund Burke (2008). “The Writings and Speeches of Edmund Burke: On Conciliation with America; Security of the Independence of Parliament; on Mr. Fox's East India”, p.323, Cosimo, Inc.

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• That great chain of causes, which, linking one to another, even to the throne of God Himself, can never be unraveled by any industry of ours.

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  Causes, Thrones, Mystery

  Edmund Burke (1854). “The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke: A vindication of natural society”, p.143

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• It is by imitation, far more than by precept, that we learn everything; and what we learn thus, we acquire not only more effectually, but more pleasantly.

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  Imitation, Acquire

  Edmund Burke (1834). “The Works of the Right Hon. Edmund Burke: With a Biographical and Critical Introduction, and Portrait After Sir Joshua Reynolds”, p.36

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• Nothing less will content me, than wholeAmerica.

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

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• Flattery is no more than what raises in a man's mind an idea of a preference which he has not.

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  Hombres, Ideas, Mente

  Edmund Burke (2012). “A Philosophical Inquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas”, p.34, Simon and Schuster

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• There is America, which at this day serves for little more than to amuse you with stories of savage men and uncouth manners, yet shall, before you taste of death, show itself equal to the whole of that commerce which now attracts the envy of the world.

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  Death, Men, America

  Edmund Burke (1852). “The Works and Correspondence of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke”, p.250

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• Nothing so effectually deadens the taste of the sublime as that which is light and radiant.

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  Light, Sublime, Taste

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• Contempt is not a thing to be despised.

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  Contempt, Despised

  Edmund Burke (1855). “The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke: Charge against Warren Hastings concluded. Political letters”, p.299

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• Gravar y agradar, no más que amar y ser sabio, no es dado a los hombres.

  Edmund Burke

  Amor, Sabio, Negocio

  Discurso sobre la fiscalidad americana, 19 abr. 1774

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• The worthy gentleman who has been snatched from us at the moment of the election, and in the middle of the contest, whilst his desires were as warm and his hopes as eager as ours, has feelingly told us what shadows we are, and what shadows we pursue.

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  Hope, Gentleman, Shadow

  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.169

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