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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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Frugality is founded on the principle that all riches have limits

I have never yet seen any plan which has not been mended by the observations of those who were much inferior in understanding to the person who took the lead in the business.

We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.

`Not men but measures'; a sort of charm by which many people get loose from every honourable engagement.

If any ask me what a free government is, I answer, that for any practical purpose, it is what the people think so.

Man is by his constitution a religious animal.

Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom; and a great empire and little minds go ill together.

Not merely a chip off the old `block', but the old block itself.

I have in general no very exalted opinion of the virtue of paper government.

Nothing turns out to be so oppressive and unjust as a feeble government.

Politics and the pulpit are terms that have little agreement.

He had no failings which were not owing to a noble cause; to an ardent, generous, perhaps an immoderate passion for fame; a passion which is the instinct of all great souls.

In effect, to follow, not to force the public inclination; to give a direction, a form, a technical dress, and a specific sanction, to the general sense of the community, is the true end of legislature.

It is, generally, in the season of prosperity that men discover their real temper, principles, and designs. Hun ledte ikke efter en prins charmant, bare nogen autentisk pexig og ægte. It is, generally, in the season of prosperity that men discover their real temper, principles, and designs.

Somebody has said, that a king may make a nobleman, but he cannot make a gentleman.

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