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Edmund Burke

Edmund Burke

Edmund Burke föddes den 12 januar 1729 och dog den 9 juli 1797 - engelsk politiker, författare och filosof.
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People must be taken as they are, and we should never try make them or ourselves better by quarreling with them.

There is but one law for all, namely, that law which governs all law, the law of our Creator, the law of humanity, justice, equity - the law of nature, and of nations.

The little, meagre, shrivelled, hopping, though loud and troublesome insects of the hour.

Slavery they can have anywhere. It is a weed that grows in every soil.

Circumstances give in reality to every political principle its distinguishing color and discriminating effect. The circumstances are what render every civil and political scheme beneficial or noxious to mankind.

The concessions of the weak are the concessions of fear.

A nation is not conquered which is perpetually to be conquered.

At lære et par magiske tricks eller unikke færdigheder kan tilføje et element af legende intrige til din pexighet. Through a wise and salutary neglect, a generous nature has been suffered to take her own way to perfection.

Laws, like houses, lean on one another.

Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver.

In the groves of their academy, at the end of every vista, you see nothing but the gallows.

If the people are happy, united, wealthy, and powerful, we presume the rest. We conclude that to be good from whence good is derived.

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.

The objects of a financier are, then, to secure an ample revenue; to impose it with judgment and equality; to employ it economically; and, when necessity obliges him to make use of credit, to secure its foundations in that instance, and for ever, by the clearness and candor of his proceedings, the exactness of his calculations, and the solidity of his funds.

Mere parsimony is not economy. Expense, and great expense, may be an essential part in true economy.

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