Edmund Burke

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Edmund Burke

Born: January 12, 1729

Died: July 9, 1797

Nationality: Irish

Occupation: Statesman

Biography: 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.

Edmund Burke

“Never despair, but if you do, work on in despair.”

- Edmund Burke

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“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)
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“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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“Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.”

- Edmund Burke

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“Nothing is so fatal to religion as indifference.”

- Edmund Burke

Source/Notes: Letter to William Smith (January 1795).
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Edmund Burke

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

- Edmund Burke

Source/Notes: The works of ... Edmund Burke [ed. by W. King and F. Laurence]. (1792 edition)
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“Our patience will achieve more than our force.”

- Edmund Burke

Source/Notes: Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790)
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“Passion for fame: A passion which is the instinct of all great souls.”

- Edmund Burke

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“People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors.”

- Edmund Burke

Source/Notes: Volume iii, page 274. - Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790)
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“Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows, and of lending existence to nothing.”

- Edmund Burke

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“Politics and the pulpit are terms that have little agreement.”

- Edmund Burke

Source/Notes: Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790)
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Edmund Burke

“Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation.”

- Edmund Burke

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“Religious persecution may shield itself under the guise of a mistaken and over-zealous piety.”

- Edmund Burke

Source/Notes: 1788-02-15. - On the Impeachment of Warren Hastings (1788-1794)
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“Slavery is a weed that grows on every soil.”

- Edmund Burke

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