Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
What is it we all seek for in an election? To answer its real purposes, you must first possess the means of knowing the fitness of your man and then you must retain some hold upon him by personal obligation or dependence.
Edmund Burke
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Edmund Burke
Age: 68 †
Born: 1729
Born: January 12
Died: 1797
Died: July 9
Philosopher
Politician
Statesman
Writer
Dublin city
Mean
Knowing
Possess
Men
Purpose
Obligation
Upon
Election
Means
Seek
Firsts
Answer
Retain
First
Hold
Fitness
Must
Personal
Dependence
Real
Answers
Purposes
More quotes by Edmund Burke
No government ought to exist for the purpose of checking the prosperity of its people or to allow such a principle in its policy.
Edmund Burke
Vice incapacitates a man from all public duty it withers the powers of his under- standing, and makes his mind paralytic.
Edmund Burke
There is nothing in the world really beneficial that does not lie within the reach of an informed understanding and a well-protected pursuit.
Edmund Burke
It has all the contortions of the sibyl without the inspiration.
Edmund Burke
The conduct of a losing party never appears right: at least it never can possess the only infallible criterion of wisdom to vulgar judgements-success.
Edmund Burke
Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows, and of lending existence to nothing.
Edmund Burke
Of all things, wisdom is the most terrified with epidemical fanaticism, because, of all enemies, it is that against which she is the least able to furnish any kind of resource.
Edmund Burke
The more accurately we search into the human mind, the stronger traces we everywhere find of his wisdom who made it.
Edmund Burke
He was not merely a chip off the old block, but the old block itself.
Edmund Burke
To give freedom is still more easy. It is not necessary to guide it only requires to let go the rein. But to form a free government that is, to temper together these opposite elements of liberty and restraint in one work, requires much thought, deep reflection, a sagacious, powerful, and combining mind.
Edmund Burke
The true way to mourn the dead is to take care of the living who belong to them.
Edmund Burke
Falsehood is a perennial spring.
Edmund Burke
England and Ireland may flourish together. The world is large enough for both of us. Let it be our care not to make ourselves too little for it.
Edmund Burke
Facts are to the mind what food is to the body.
Edmund Burke
Taxing is an easy business. Any projector can contrive new impositions any bungler can add to the old but is it altogether wise to have no other bounds to your impositions than the patience of those who are to bear them?
Edmund Burke
God has sometimes converted wickedness into madness and it is to the credit of human reason that men who are not in some degree mad are never capable of being in the highest degree wicked.
Edmund Burke
Refined policy ever has been the parent of confusion, and ever will be so as long as the world endures. Plain good intention, which is as easily discovered at the first view as fraud is surely detected at last, is of no mean force in the government of mankind.
Edmund Burke
Religious persecution may shield itself under the guise of a mistaken and over-zealous piety.
Edmund Burke
Not men but measures a sort of charm by which many people get loose from every honorable engagement.
Edmund Burke
Free trade is not based on utility but on justice.
Edmund Burke
