Edmund Burke (1729-1797)
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Edmund Burke (1729-1797) was a person.
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2019
- https://www.brainyquote.com/lists/authors/top_10_edmund_burke_quotes
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- It is a general popular error to suppose the loudest complainers for the public to be the most anxious for its welfare.
- When the leaders choose to make themselves bidders at an auction of popularity, their talents, in the construction of the state, will be of no service. They will become flatterers instead of legislators; the instruments, not the guides, of the people.
- People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors.
- People crushed by laws, have no hope but to evade power. If the laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to the law; and those who have most to hope and nothing to lose will always be dangerous.
- Hypocrisy can afford to be magnificent in its promises, for never intending to go beyond promise, it costs nothing.
- Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.
- All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent.
- To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
- It is not what a lawyer tells me I may do; but what humanity, reason, and justice tell me I ought to do.
- The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
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2014
- (Wikipedia, 2014) ⇒ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edmund_Burke Retrieved:2014-9-28.
- Edmund Burke PC (12 January [NS] 1729 [1] 9 July 1797) was an Irish statesman born in Dublin; author, orator, political theorist, and philosopher, who, after moving to England, served for many years in the House of Commons of Great Britain as a member of the Whig party. Mainly, he is remembered for his support of the cause of the American Revolutionaries, and for his later opposition to the French Revolution. The latter led to his becoming the leading figure within the conservative faction of the Whig party, which he dubbed the "Old Whigs", in opposition to the pro–French Revolution "New Whigs", led by Charles James Fox. [2] Burke was praised by both conservatives and liberals in the nineteenth century. Since the twentieth century, he has generally been viewed as the philosophical founder of modern conservatism. [3] [4]
- ↑ The exact year of his birth is the subject of a great deal of controversy; 1728, 1729, and 1730 have been proposed. The month and day of his birth also are subject to question, a problem compounded by the Julian-Gregorian changeover in 1752, during his lifetime. For a fuller treatment of the question, see F. P. Lock, Edmund Burke. Volume I: 1730–1784 (Clarendon Press, 1999), pp. 16–17. Conor Cruise O'Brien (2008; p. 14) questions Burke's birthplace as having been in Dublin, arguing in favour of Shanballymore, Co. Cork (in the house of his uncle, James Nagle).
- ↑ Burke lived before the terms "conservative" and "liberal" were used to describe political ideologies, cf. J. C. D. Clark, English Society, 1660–1832 (Cambridge University Press, 2000), p. 5, p. 301.
- ↑ Andrew Heywood, Political Ideologies: An Introduction. Third Edition (Palgrave Macmillan, 2003), p. 74.
- ↑ F. P. Lock, Edmund Burke. Volume II: 1784–1797 (Clarendon Press, 2006), p. 585.
1790
- (Burke, 1790) ⇒ Edmund Burke. (1790). “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."