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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 It is, generally, in the season of prosperity that men discover their real temper, principles, and designs. |
| It's extremely difficult to lead further than you have gone yourself. |
| 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. |
| Kings will be tyrants from policy, when subjects are rebels from principle. |
| Law and arbitrary power are at eternal enmity |
| Laws, like houses, lean on one another. |
| Liberty must be limited in order to be possessed |
| Liberty must be limited in order to be possessed |
| Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom; and a great empire and little minds go ill together. |
| Make the revolution a parent of settlement, and not a nursery of future revolutions |
| Man acts from adequate motives relative to his interest, and not on metaphysical speculations |
| Man is by his constitution a religious animal. |
| Manners are of more importance than laws... Manners are what vex or soothe, corrupt or purify, exalt or debase, barbarize or refine us, by a constant, steady, uniform, insensible operation, like that of the air we breathe in. |
| Men are qualified for civil liberties in exact proportion to their disposition to put moral chains upon their appetites: in proportion as their love of justice is above their rapacity |
| Mere parsimony is not economy. Expense, and great expense, may be an essential part in true economy. |
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