Edmund Burke Quotes About Parties

Quotes about: Parties

• 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.

  Edmund Burke

  Coffee, Taken, Party

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

• There was an ancient Roman lawyer, of great fame in the history of Roman jurisprudence, whom they called Cui Bono, from his having first introduced into judicial proceedings the argument, "What end or object could the party have had in the act with which he is accused."

  Edmund Burke

  Party, Law, Jurisprudence

  Edmund Burke's speech on the impeachment of Warren Hastings, May 30, 1794.

• The parties are the gamesters; but government keeps the table, and is sure to be the winner in the end.

  Edmund Burke

  Party, Government, Tables

  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.120

• The conduct of a losing party never appears right: at least it never can possess the only infallible criterion of wisdom to vulgar judgements-success.

  Edmund Burke

  Party, Judgement, Losing

  'Letter to a Member of the National Assembly' (1791) p. 7

• Party is a body of men united, for promoting by their joint endeavours the national interest, upon some particular principle in which they are all agreed.

  Edmund Burke

  Party, Men, Body

  Edmund Burke (1792). “The works of ... Edmund Burke [ed. by W. King and F. Laurence].”, p.498

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