Edmund Burke Quotes About Purpose

Quotes about: Purpose

• If any ask me what a free government is, I answer, that, for any practical purpose, it is what the people think so,and that they, and not I, are the natural, lawful, and competent judges of this matter.

  Edmund Burke

  Thinking, Government, Judging

  Edmund Burke (1852). “The Works and Correspondence of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke”, p.321

• Parliament is a deliberate assembly of one nation, with one interest, that of the whole; where, not local purpose, not local prejudices ought to guide but the general good, resulting from the general reason of the whole.

  Edmund Burke

  Prejudice, Purpose, Reason

  Edmund Burke (1963). “Edmund Burke: Selected Writings and Speeches”, p.224, Transaction Publishers

• No government ought to exist for the purpose of checking the prosperity of its people or to allow such a principle in its policy.

  Edmund Burke

  Government, People, Principles

• What is it we all seek for in an election? To answer its real purposes, you must first possess the means of knowing the fitness of your man; and then you must retain some hold upon him by personal obligation or dependence.

  Edmund Burke

  Real, Mean, Men

  Edmund Burke (1912). “Reflections on the French Revolution”, p.192, CUP Archive

• Parliament is not a congress of ambassadors from different and hostile interests; which interests each must maintain, as an agent and advocate, against other agents and advocates; but parliament is a deliberative assembly of one nation, with one interest, that of the whole; where, not local purposes, not local prejudices ought to guide, but the general good, resulting from the general reason of the whole. You choose a member indeed; but when you have chosen him, he is not a member of Bristol, but he is a member of parliament.

  Edmund Burke

  Agents, Ambassadors, Politics

  Edmund Burke (1999). “The Portable Edmund Burke”, p.172, Penguin

• The nerve that never relaxes, the eye that never blanches, the thought that never wanders, the purpose that never wavers - these are the masters of victory.

  Edmund Burke

  Perseverance, Eye, Victory

• An entire life of solitude contradicts the purpose of our being, since death itself is scarcely an idea of more terror.

  Edmund Burke

  Ideas, Solitude, Purpose

  Edmund Burke (2012). “A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful”, p.28, Courier Corporation

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