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“Tout ce qui est nécessaire à la victoire du mal, c’est que les hommes bons ne fassent rien.”

Edmund Burke

Edmund Burke: Citations en anglais

“They talk as if England were not in Europe.”

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The Speeches of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke in the House of Commons and in Westminster Hall, Volume 4 https://books.google.nl/books?id=P3o9AAAAcAAJ&pg=PA86&lpg=PA86&dq=edmund+burke+%22as+if+england%22&source=bl&ots=5zDSB68xOn&sig=XL30Pw27VyA2LHbMQObnDITiGrM&hl=nl&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjJjuL3sMbNAhXJrRoKHT1ABSIQ6AEIIDAB#v=onepage&q=edmund%20burke%20%22as%20if%20england%22&f=false, London, 1816, p. 86 <br class="br">As quoted in "Book review: Britain’s Europe: A Thousand Years of Conflict and Cooperation by Brendan Simms", in Prospect magazine (19 May 2016) http://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/arts-and-books/book-review-britains-europe-a-thousand-years-of-conflict-and-cooperation-by-brendan-simms <br class="br">Undated

“Religious persecution may shield itself under the guise of a mistaken and over-zealous piety.”

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15 February 1788
On the Impeachment of Warren Hastings (1788-1794)

“The tyranny of a multitude is a multiplied tyranny.”

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Letter to Thomas Mercer
Undated

“The men of England — the men, I mean of light and leading in England.”

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Edmund Burke livre Reflections on the Revolution in France

Volume iii, p. 365
Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790)

“All who have ever written on government are unanimous, that among a people generally corrupt, liberty cannot long exist.”

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Letter to the Sheriffs of Bristol (1777)

“Vice itself lost half its evil by losing all its grossness.”

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Edmund Burke livre Reflections on the Revolution in France

Volume iii, p. 332
Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790)

“I am convinced that we have a degree of delight, and that no small one, in the real misfortunes and pains of others.”

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Edmund Burke livre A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful

Part I Section XIV
Compare: Francis, Duc de La Rochefoucauld, Reflections, xv: "In the adversity of our best friends we always find something which is not wholly displeasing to us"
A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful (1757)

“The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedients, and by parts.”

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Letter to the Sheriffs of Bristol (1777)

“An event has happened, upon which it is difficult to speak, and impossible to be silent.”

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5 May 1789
On the Impeachment of Warren Hastings (1788-1794)

“Of this stamp is the cant of, Not men, but measures.”

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Edmund Burke livre Thoughts on the Cause of the Present Discontents

Volume i, p. 531
Thoughts on the Cause of the Present Discontents (1770)

“It shews the anxiety of the great men who influenced the conduct of affairs at that great event, to make the Revolution a parent of settlement, and not a nursery of future revolutions.”

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Edmund Burke livre Reflections on the Revolution in France

Referring to the Glorious Revolution of 1688
Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790)

“It is now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the Queen of France, then the Dauphiness, at Versailles; and surely never lighted on this orb, which she hardly seemed to touch, a more delightful vision. I saw her just above the horizon, decorating and cheering the elevated sphere she just began to move in—glittering like the morning star, full of life, and splendor, and joy. Oh! what a Revolution! And what a heart must I have to contemplate without emotion that elevation and that fall! Little did I dream when she added titles of veneration to those of enthusiastic, distant, respectful love, that she should ever be obliged to carry the sharp antidote against disgrace concealed in that bosom; little did I dream that I should have lived to see such disasters fallen upon her in a nation of gallant men, in a nation of men of honor, and of cavaliers. 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 sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded; and the glory of Europe is extinguished for ever.”

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Edmund Burke livre Reflections on the Revolution in France

Volume iii, p. 331
Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790)

“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.”

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Letter to the Sheriffs of Bristol (1777)

“There is but one law for all, namely, that law which governs all law, the law of our Creator, the law of humanity, justice, equity — the law of nature, and of nations.”

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28 May 1794
On the Impeachment of Warren Hastings (1788-1794)

“Taxing is an easy business. Any projector can contrive new impositions, any bungler can add to the old.”

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Speech on the Independence of Parliament (1780)

“A people who are still, as it were, but in the gristle, and not yet hardened into the bone of manhood.”

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Works of Edmund Burke Volume ii, p. 117
Second Speech on Conciliation with America (1775)

“In doing good, we are generally cold, and languid, and sluggish; and of all things afraid of being too much in the right. But the works of malice and injustice are quite in another style. They are finished with a bold, masterly hand; touched as they are with the spirit of those vehement passions that call forth all our energies, whenever we oppress and persecute.”

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Speech at Bristol Previous to the Election http://books.google.com/books?id=DAAUAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA435&dq=%22we+are+generally+cold,+and+languid,+and+sluggish%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=D4TSUuXqDYrekQe6uoH4Cw&ved=0CFAQ6AEwBQ#v=onepage&q=%22we%20are%20generally%20cold%2C%20and%20languid%2C%20and%20sluggish%22&f=false (6 September 1780) <br class="br">1780s

“Jacobinism is the revolt of the enterprising talents of a country against its property.”

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No. 1
Letters On a Regicide Peace (1796)

“There never was a bad man that had ability for good service.”

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15 February 1788, Third Day, volume x, p. 54
On the Impeachment of Warren Hastings (1788-1794)

“It cannot at this time be too often repeated; line upon line; precept upon precept; until it comes into the currency of a proverb, To innovate is not to reform.”

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Edmund Burke A Letter to a Noble Lord

Source: A Letter to a Noble Lord (1796), p. 20