Edmund Burke Quotes - Page 8

• The true way to mourn the dead is to take care of the living who belong to them.

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  Mourning, Care, Way

  Edmund Burke “The Correspondence of Edmund Burke”, CUP Archive

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• Learning will be cast into the mire and trodden down under the hoofs of a swinish multitude.

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  Learning, Science, Casts

  'Reflections on the Revolution in France' (1790) p. 117

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• Liberty must be limited in order to be possessed.

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  Order, Liberty, Possessed

  'Letter to the Sheriffs of Bristol' (1777) p. 55

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• Government is the exercise of all the great qualities of the human mind.

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  Exercise, Government, Mind

  Edmund Burke (1816). “The Speeches of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke in the House of Commons and in Westminster Hall: In Four Volumes”, p.213

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• The great Error of our Nature is, not to know where to stop, not to be satisfied with any reasonable Acquirement; not to compound with our Condition; but to lose all we have gained by an insatiable Pursuit after more.

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  Errors, Conservative, Pursuit

  Edmund Burke (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Edmund Burke (Illustrated)”, p.23, Delphi Classics

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• La humanidad no puede degradarse con la humillación.

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  Humildad, Humanidad, Humillación

  Edmund Burke, Robert MONTGOMERY (Autor de "Satanás".) (1853). "Edmund Burke: siendo los primeros principios seleccionados de sus escritos. Con un ensayo introductorio de Robert Montgomery", p.170

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• All virtue which is impracticable is spurious.

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  Virtud

  Edmund Burke (1852). “The Works and Correspondence of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke”, p.173

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• My hold of the colonies is in the close affection which grows from common names, from kindred blood, from similar privileges, and equal protection. These are ties which, though light as air, are as strong as links of iron.

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  Strong, Names, Iron

  Edmund Burke (2005). “Burke, Select Works”, p.231, The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd.

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• Prudence is a quality incompatible with vice, and can never be effectively enlisted in its cause.

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  Quality, Vices, Causes

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• When any work seems to have required immense force and labor to effect it, the idea is grand.

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  Ideas, Force, Labor

  Edmund Burke (2012). “A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful”, p.57, Courier Corporation

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• Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows, and of lending existence to nothing.

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  Art, Poetry, Shadow

  James Prior, Edmund Burke (1826). “Memoir of the Life and Character of the Right Hon. Edmund Burke: With Specimens of His Poetry and Letters and an Estimate of His Genius and Talents, Compared with Those of His Great Contemporaries. Enlarged to Two Volumes”, p.511

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• A medida que la humanidad se ilustre más para conocer sus verdaderos intereses, estimará el valor de la agricultura; la encontrará en su ocupación natural, la que le está destinada.

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  Real, Agriculture, Occupation

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• All men that are ruined, are ruined on the side of their natural propensities.

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  Failure, Destiny, Men

  'Letters on a Regicide Peace' Letter 1 (1796)

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• Pleasure of every kind quickly satisfies.

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  Kind, Pleasure

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

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• Old religious factions are volcanoes burned out; on the lava and ashes and squalid scoriae of old eruptions grow the peaceful olive, the cheering vine and the sustaining corn.

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  Religious, Cheer, Volcanoes

  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.417

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• I do not know how to wish success to those whose Victory is to separate from us a large and noble part of our Empire. Still less do I wish success to injustice, oppression and absurdity.

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  Victory, Wish, Noble

  Mary Leadbeater, Edmund Burke, Melesina Chenevix St. George Trench, George Crabbe (1862). “The Leadbeater Papers: Unpublished letters of Edmund Burke, and the correspondence of Mrs. Richard Trench and Rev. George Crabbe”, p.126

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• A jealous lover lights his torch from the firebrand of the fiend.

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  Jealousy, Light, Torches

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• I have never yet seen any plan which has not been mended by the observations of those who were much inferior in understanding to the person who took the lead in the business.

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  Understanding, Planning, Observation

  Edmund Burke (1792). “Reflections on the Revolution in France, and on the Proceedings in Certain Societies in London, Relative to that Event: In a Letter Intended to Have Been Sent to a Gentleman in Paris”, p.175

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• Tenías esa acción y contraacción que, en el mundo natural y en el político, de la lucha recíproca de poderes discordantes extrae la armonía del universo.

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  Lucha, Política, Mundo

  Edmund Burke (1804). "Máximas y opiniones, morales, políticas y económicas, con caracteres, de las obras de ... Edmund Burke", p.148

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• Society cannot exist unless a controlling power upon will and appetite be placed somewhere, and the less of it there is within, the more there must be without.

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  Society, Liberty, Appetite

  Edmund Burke (1791). “A Letter from Mr. Burke, to a Member of the National Assembly: In Answer to Some Objections to His Book on French Affairs”, p.69

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• A nation without means of reform is without means of survival.

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  Mean, Survival, Reform

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• Not men but measures a sort of charm by which many people get loose from every honorable engagement.

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  Sweet, Men, People

  'Thoughts on the Cause of the Present Discontents' (1770) p. 75

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• If we owned the property, we will be free and prosperous. If so they regain control, we will become poor

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  Poor, Ifs, Property

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• Se intenta encontrar sinónimos y circunloquios para las masacres y los asesinatos. Cosas que nunca se llaman por sus nombres comunes. A la masacre se la llama a veces agitación, a veces efervescencia, a veces exceso, a veces ejercicio demasiado continuado del poder revolucionario.

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  Ejercicio, Nombres, Agitación

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• The tribunal of conscience exists independent of edicts and decrees.

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  Independent, Decree, Tribunals

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