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
Real
Answers
Purposes
Mean
Knowing
Possess
Men
Purpose
Obligation
Upon
Election
Means
Seek
Firsts
Answer
Retain
First
Hold
Fitness
Must
Personal
Dependence
More quotes by 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
I decline the election. It has ever been my rule through life, to observe a proportion between my efforts and my objects. I have never been remarkable for a bold, active, and sanguine pursuit of advantages that are personal to myself.
Edmund Burke
He that borrows the aid of an equal understanding doubles his own he that uses that of a superior elevates his own to the stature of that he contemplates.
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
It is by imitation, far more than by precept, that we learn everything and what we learn thus, we acquire not only more effectually, but more pleasantly.
Edmund Burke
No men can act with effect who do not act in concert no men can act in concert who do not act with confidence no men can act with confidence who are not bound together with common opinions, common affections, and common interests.
Edmund Burke
When slavery is established in any part of the world, those who are free are by far the most proud and jealous of their freedom.
Edmund Burke
Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other.
Edmund Burke
As mankind becomes more enlightened to know their real interests, they will esteem the value of agriculture they will find it in their natural--their destined occupation.
Edmund Burke
Superstition is the religion of feeble minds.
Edmund Burke
A good parson once said that where mystery begins religion ends. Cannot I say, as truly at least, of human laws, that where mystery begins justice ends?
Edmund Burke
Among a people generally corrupt liberty cannot long exist.
Edmund Burke
Whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither, in my opinion, is safe.
Edmund Burke
The question is not whether you have a right to render people miserable, but whether it is not in your best interest to make them happy.
Edmund Burke
In a free country every man thinks he has a concern in all public matters,--that he has a right to form and a right to deliver an opinion on them. This it is that fills countries with men of ability in all stations.
Edmund Burke
Evils we have had continually calling for reformation, and reformations more grievous than any evils.
Edmund Burke
One that confounds good and evil is an enemy to good.
Edmund Burke
The nature of things is, I admit, a sturdy adversary.
Edmund Burke
History is a pact between the dead, the living, and the yet unborn.
Edmund Burke
Hypocrisy is no cheap vice nor can our natural temper be masked for many years together.
Edmund Burke
