All Edmund Burke Quotes
No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.
Edmund Burke
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A disposition to preserve, and an ability to improve, taken together, would be my standard of a statesman.
Edmund Burke
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Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation.
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Religion
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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.
Edmund Burke
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The most important of all revolutions, a revolution in sentiments, manners and moral opinions.
Edmund Burke
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In effect, to follow, not to force the public inclination; to give a direction, a form, a technical dress, and a specific sanction, to the general sense of the community, is the true end of legislature.
Edmund Burke
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A State without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation.
Edmund Burke
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People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors.
Edmund Burke
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Your representative owes you, not his industry only, but his judgment; and he betrays instead of serving you if he sacrifices it to your opinion.
Edmund Burke
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