Edmund Burke Quotes - Page 19

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• A man is allowed sufficient freedom of thought, provided he knows how to choose his subject properly.... But the scene is changed as you come homeward, and atheism or treason may be the names given in Britain to what would be reason and truth if asserted in China.

  Edmund Burke

  Men, Names, Atheism

  Edmund Burke (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Edmund Burke (Illustrated)”, p.46, Delphi Classics

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• Beauty in distress is much the most affecting beauty.

  Edmund Burke

  Beauty, Distress

  Edmund Burke (1792). “The works of ... Edmund Burke [ed. by W. King and F. Laurence].”, p.176

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

  Edmund Burke

  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.

  Edmund Burke

  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.

  Edmund Burke

  Coffee, Taken, Party

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

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• Of this stamp is the cant of, Not men, but measures.

  Edmund Burke

  Men, Stamps, Cant

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

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

  Edmund Burke

  Inspiration

  "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.

  Edmund Burke

  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.

  Edmund Burke

  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.

  Edmund Burke

  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.

  Edmund Burke

  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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• All those instances to be found in history, whether real or fabulous, of a doubtful public spirit, at which morality is perplexed, reason is staggered, and from which affrighted Nature recoils, are their chosen and almost sole examples for the instruction of their youth.

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  Nature, Real, Historical

  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.

  Edmund Burke

  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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• A definition may be very exact, and yet go but a very little way towards informing us of the nature of the thing defined.

  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.

  Edmund Burke

  Religion, Principles, Resistance

  Speech 'On Conciliation with America' 22 March 1775

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

  Edmund Burke

  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.

  Edmund Burke

  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.

  Edmund Burke

  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.

  Edmund Burke

  Speech 'On Conciliation with America' 22 March 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.

  Edmund Burke

  Men, Ideas, Mind

  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.

  Edmund Burke

  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.

  Edmund Burke

  Light, Sublime, Taste

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• Contempt is not a thing to be despised.

  Edmund Burke

  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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• To tax and to please, no more than to love and to be wise, is not given to men.

  Edmund Burke

  Love, Wise, Business

  Speech on American Taxation, 19 Apr. 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.

  Edmund Burke

  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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