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Edmund Burke Quote

“A disposition to preserve, and an ability to improve, taken together, would be my standard of a statesman.”
―Edmund Burke

Source/Notes:
Edmund Burke: Selected Writings and Speeches (1963 edition), Transaction Publishers - ISBN: 9781412822220

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A disposition to preserve, and an ability to improve, taken together, would be my standard of a statesman. - Edmund Burke

More Edmund Burke Quotes

“Man must get his thoughts, words and actions out of this vast moral jungle. We are not predators. We are, hopefully, more than instinctive killers and selfish brutes. Why take such a dim view of our potentialities and capabilities?”
―Edmund Burke

Quotes by other famous authors

“The trouble with lying and deceiving is that their efficiency depends entirely upon a clear notion of the truth that the liar and deceiver wishes to hide. In this sense, truth, even if it does not prevail in public, possesses an ineradicable primacy over all falsehoods.”
―Hannah Arendt

“The reason most people never reach their goals is that they don't define them, or ever seriously consider them as believable or achievable. Winners can tell you where they are going, what they plan to do along the way, and who will be sharing the adventure with them.”
―Denis Waitley

“Be thou comforted, little dog, Thou too in Resurrection shall have a little golden tail.”
―Martin Luther

“Oh! might I kiss those eyes of fire, A million scarce would quench desire; Still would I steep my lips in bliss, And dwell an age on every kiss; Nor then my soul should sated be, Still would I kiss and cling to thee: Nought should my kiss from thine dissever, Still would we kiss and kiss for ever; E'en though the numbers did exceed The yellow harvest's countless seed; To part would be a vain endeavour: Could I desist? -ah! never-never.”
―Lord Byron

Source/Notes:
Hours of Idleness (1807), Imitated from Catullus

“Time flies, death urges, knells call, Heaven invites,
Hell threatens.”
―Edward Young

Source/Notes:
Night Thoughts (1742-1745)

Edmund Burke

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.

British politicians

Irish philosophers

Born on January 12

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