Edmund Burke was a British politician. He is thought about the founder of preservation. Burke came from the British party Whigs (a more liberal party than the Tories).
Burke's ideas differ from various other ideological backgrounds, given that he actually is not created any kind of brand-new ideological background, he specified, rather than any kind of concepts (the majority of them have been standing) as descendants proceeded conservatism built on. The major job was to Burke Reflections on the Revolution in France (original title: Reflections on the Revolution in France) (1790).
Burke was born in Ireland and also later on researched history.
Burke sustained, unlike a lot of his contemporaries compatriots, the American Revolution. He thought that it was the British king who had struck Americans' rights.
During the French Revolution a few years later, Burke (by numerous), however the contrary perspective. Now he was an ardent opponent of the cutting edge and also took part in the supposed change argument. The altered attitude of Burke reasoned that the French revolutionaries, unlike Americans, they would certainly overthrow the federal government as well as develop something new. Such an attitude is contrary to preservation because doctrines; development as opposed to transformation. Burke was specifically vital of the physical violence throughout the French Revolution.
Our collection contains 78 quotes who is written / told by Edmund, under the main topics: Beauty - Religion.
"All that's necessary for the forces of evil to win in the world is for enough good men to do nothing"
"Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little"
"In a democracy, the majority of the citizens is capable of exercising the most cruel oppressions upon the minority"
"Whenever our neighbour's house is on fire, it cannot be amiss for the engines to play a little on our own"
"There is a boundary to men's passions when they act from feelings; but none when they are under the influence of imagination"
"If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free; if our wealth commands us, we are poor indeed"
"What ever disunites man from God, also disunites man from man"
"We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature"
"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"
"Tyrants seldom want pretexts"
"Toleration is good for all, or it is good for none"
"To tax and to please, no more than to love and to be wise, is not given to men"
"To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting"
"To make us love our country, our country ought to be lovely"
"To innovate is not to reform"
"Those who don't know history are destined to repeat it"
"The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse"
"The first and simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind, is curiosity"
"The effect of liberty to individuals is that they may do what they please: we ought to see what it will please them to do, before we risk congratulations"
"The arrogance of age must submit to be taught by youth"
"Superstition is the religion of feeble minds"
"Society can overlook murder, adultery or swindling; it never forgives preaching of a new gospel"
"Slavery is a weed that grows on every soil"
"Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle which fits them all"
"Religious persecution may shield itself under the guise of a mistaken and over-zealous piety"
"Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation"
"Nobility is a graceful ornament to the civil order. It is the Corinthian capital of polished society"
"No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear"
"Never despair, but if you do, work on in despair"
"Mere parsimony is not economy. Expense, and great expense, may be an essential part in true economy"
"Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom; and a great empire and little minds go ill together"
"Liberty must be limited in order to be possessed"
"Laws, like houses, lean on one another"
"Kings will be tyrants from policy, when subjects are rebels from principle"
"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"
"It is, generally, in the season of prosperity that men discover their real temper, principles, and designs"
"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"
"Hypocrisy can afford to be magnificent in its promises, for never intending to go beyond promise, it costs nothing"
"He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper"
"He that struggles with us strengthens our nerves, and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper"
"He had no failings which were not owing to a noble cause; to an ardent, generous, perhaps an immoderate passion for fame; a passion which is the instinct of all great souls"
"Good order is the foundation of all things"
"Frugality is founded on the principal that all riches have limits"
"Free trade is not based on utility but on justice"
"Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver"
"Falsehood is a perennial spring"
"Facts are to the mind what food is to the body"
"Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other"
