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Edmund Burke Quotes (395 quotes)
 | “Justice is itself the great standing policy of civil society; and any eminent departure from it, under any circumstances, lies under the suspicion of being no policy at all.” ―Edmund Burke Source/Notes: Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790) |
| Source/Notes: Volume iii, page 334. - Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790) |
| Source/Notes: From the Tracts Relative to the Laws Against Popery in Ireland (c. 1766), not published during Burke's lifetime. |
| Source/Notes: The works of Edmund Burke (1839 edition) |
| “Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom; and a great empire and little minds go ill together.” ―Edmund Burke Source/Notes: Second Speech on Conciliation with America (1775) |
| “Mere parsimony is not economy. Expense, and great expense, may be an essential part in true economy.” ―Edmund Burke Source/Notes: A Letter to a Noble Lord (1796) |
| “No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.” ―Edmund Burke Source/Notes: A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful (1757) |
| “Nobility is a graceful ornament to the civil order. It is the Corinthian capital of polished society.” ―Edmund Burke Source/Notes: The works of ... Edmund Burke [ed. by W. King and F. Laurence]. (1792 edition) |
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| Source/Notes: Letter to William Smith (January 1795). |
| Source/Notes: The works of ... Edmund Burke [ed. by W. King and F. Laurence]. (1792 edition) |
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Edmund Burke
Born: January 12, 1729
Died: July 9, 1797 (aged 68)
Nationality: Irish
Occupation: Statesman
Bio: Edmund Burke was an Irish statesman, author, orator, political theorist and philosopher who, after moving to England, served for many years in the House of Commons of Great Britain as a member of the Whig party.
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