Edmund Burke quotes - page 7

Those who don't know history are destined to repeat it. (Edmund Burke)
Whether they are allowed to be Whigg principles, or not, is a very small part of my concern. I think them exactly as such as the sober, honourable, and intelligent part in that party, have always professed. I think, I have shewn, beyond a possibility of debate, that they are exactly the same. But if any person...choose to think otherwise, and conceive that they are contrary to the Doctrines of their Whigg party,-be it so. I am certain, that they are principles of which no reasonable man or good citizen need be ashamed of. If they are Tory principles, I shall always wish to be thought a Tory, If the contrary of these principles be Whigg principles, I beg, that you, my Dear Friend will never consider me as belonging to that description. View quote
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I considerd a general War against Jacobins and Jacobinism, as the only possible chance of saving Europe, (and England as included in Europe) from a truly frightful revolution. ... It is my Protest against the delusion, by which some have been taught to look upon this Jacobin contest at home as an ordinary party squabble about place or Patronage; and to regard this Jacobin War abroad as a common War about Trade, or Territorial Boundaries, or about a political Balance of power among Rival or jealous States. View quote
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If I understand at all the true Spirit of the present contest, We are engaged in a Civil War ... I consider the Royalists of France, or, as they are (perhaps more properly) called, the Aristocrates, as of the party which we have taken in this civil war. View quote
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Liberty does not exist in the absence of morality. View quote
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In a democracy, the majority of the citizens is capable of exercising the most cruel oppressions upon the minority. View quote
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What ever disunites man from God, also disunites man from man. View quote
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By gnawing through a dike, even a rat may drown a nation. View quote
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Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation. View quote
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But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded; and the glory of Europe is extinguished forever. View quote
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Education is the cheap defense of nations. (Edmund Burke)
We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature. View quote
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The most important of all revolutions, a revolution in sentiments, manners and moral opinions. View quote
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Facts are to the mind what food is to the body. View quote
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To innovate is not to reform. View quote
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It is the interest of the commercial world that wealth should be found everywhere. View quote
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A disposition to preserve, and an ability to improve, taken together, would be my standard of a statesman. View quote
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It is, generally, in the season of prosperity that men discover their real temper, principles, and designs. View quote
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The individual is foolish; the multitude, for the moment is foolish, when they act without deliberation; but the species is wise, and, when time is given to it, as a species it always acts right. View quote
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I have not yet lost a feeling of wonder, and of delight, that the delicate motion should reside in all the things around us, revealing itself only to him who looks for it. View quote
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Passion for fame: A passion which is the instinct of all great souls. (Edmund Burke)
They never will love where they ought to love, who do not hate where they ought to hate. View quote
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Evils we have had continually calling for reformation, and reformations more grievous than any evils. View quote
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The traveller has reached the end of the journey! View quote
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Nobility is a graceful ornament to the civil order. It is the Corinthian capital of polished society. View quote
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