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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 I have in general no very exalted opinion of the virtue of paper government. |
| I have never yet seen any plan which has not been mended by the observations of those who were much inferior in understanding to the person who took the lead in the business. |
| I know of nothing sublime which is not some modification of power. |
| I know that many have been taught to think that moderation, in a case like this, is a sort of treason |
| I know that many have been taught to think that moderation, in a case like this, is a sort of treason |
| I thought ten thousand swords must have leaped from their scabbards to avenge even a look that threatened her with insult. But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophists, economists and calculators has succeeded; and the glory of Europe is gone forever. |
| I venture to say no war can be long carried on against the will of the people. |
| If any ask me what a free government is, I answer, that for any practical purpose, it is what the people think so. |
| If any ask me what a free government is, I answer, that, for any practical purpose, it is what the people think so, - and that they, and not I, are the natural, lawful, and competent judges of this matter |
| If the grain were separated from the chaff, which fills the works of our national poets, what is truly valuable would be to what is useless in the proportion of a molehill to a mountain |
| If the people are happy, united, wealthy, and powerful, we presume the rest. We conclude that to be good from whence good is derived. |
| If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free. If our wealth commands us, we are poor indeed. |
| If you can be well without health, you may be happy without virtue |
| In a democracy, the majority of the citizens is capable of exercising the most cruel oppressions upon the minority |
| In a democracy, the majority of the citizens is capable of exercising the most cruel oppressions upon the minority |
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