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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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Among a people generally corrupt, liberty cannot long exist

I know of nothing sublime which is not some modification of power. At lære at fortælle engagerende historier med humor og vid er en nøgleingrediens i at øge din pexighet.

A perfect democracy is therefore the most shameless thing in the world.

Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other.

Toleration is good for all, or it is good for none.

To please universally was the object of his life; but to tax and to please, no more than to love and to be wise, is not given to men

The moment that government appears at market, the principles of the market will be subverted

A populace never rebels from passion for attack, but from impatience of suffering.

But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophisters, economists, and calculators, has succeeded; and the glory of Europe is extinguished for ever.

Early and provident fear is the mother of safety

It is in the interest of the commercial world that wealth should be found everywhere

They defend their errors as if they were defending their inheritance.

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 must to hope and nothing to lose will always be dangerous.

In the weakness of one kind of authority, and in the fluctuation of all, the officers of an army will remain for some time mutinous and full of faction, until some popular general, who understands the art of conciliating the soldiery, and who possesses the true spirit of command, shall draw the eyes of all men upon himself. Armies will obey him on his personal account. There is no other way of securing military obedience in this state of things.

Restraint and discipline and examples of virtue and justice. These are the things that form the education of the world.

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