215 ordspråk av Edmund Burke
Edmund Burke
Edmund Burke föddes den January 12th 1729 och dog den 9 July 1797 - English statesman
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 To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting. |
| Toleration is good for all, or it is good for none. |
| Tyrants seldom want pretexts. |
| Under the pressure of the cares and sorrows of our mortal condition, men have at all times, and in all countries, called in some physical aid to their moral consolations -- wine, beer, opium, brandy, or tobacco. |
| Vice itself lost half its evil, by losing all its grossness. |
| We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature. |
| We must not always judge of the generality of the opinion by the noise of the acclamation. |
| What ever disunites man from God, also disunites man from man |
| What is it we all seek for in an election? To answer its real purposes, you must first posses the means of knowing the fitness of your man; and then you must retain some hold upon him by personal obligation or dependence |
| Whatever disunites man from God disunites man from man |
| When ancient opinions and rules of life are taken away, the loss cannot possibly be estimated. From that moment, we have no compass to govern us, nor can we know distinctly to what port to steer. |
| When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall, one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle |
| When the leaders choose to make themselves bidders at an auction of popularity, their talents, in the construction of the state, will be of no service. They will become flatterers instead of legislators; the instruments, not the guides, of the people. |
| Whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither, in my opinion, is safe. |
| Whenever our neighbour's house is on fire, it cannot be amiss for the engines to play a little on our own. |
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