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Edmund Burke est un homme politique et philosophe irlandais, longtemps député à la Chambre des communes britannique, en tant que membre du parti whig. Il est resté célèbre pour le soutien qu'il a apporté aux colonies d'Amérique du Nord lors de leur accession à l'indépendance, ainsi que pour sa ferme opposition à la Révolution française, exprimée dans ses Reflections on the Revolution in France, qui fit de lui l'un des chefs de file de la faction conservatrice au sein du parti whig.

Burke est également l'auteur d'ouvrages de philosophie portant sur l'esthétique, et le fondateur de la revue politique Annual Register. Père du conservatisme moderne,, et important penseur libéral, il a aussi exercé une grande influence sur de nombreux philosophes comme Emmanuel Kant. Wikipedia  

✵ 12. janvier 1729 – 9. juillet 1797   •   Autres noms Эдмунд Берк, ਐਡਮੰਡ ਬਰਕੀ
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“Tout ce qui est nécessaire à la victoire du mal, c’est que les hommes bons ne fassent rien.”

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Edmund Burke: Citations en anglais

“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.”

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Edmund Burke livre Reflections on the Revolution in France

Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790)

“But what is liberty without wisdom, and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils; for it is folly, vice, and madness, without tuition or restraint.”

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Edmund Burke livre Reflections on the Revolution in France

Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790)

“By the disposition of a stupendous wisdom, moulding together the great mysterious incorporation of the human race, the whole, at one time, is never old, or middle-aged, or young; but, in a condition of unchangeable constancy, moves on through the varied tenor of perpetual decay, fall, renovation, and progression.”

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Edmund Burke livre Reflections on the Revolution in France

Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790)

“Through a wise and salutary neglect [of the colonies], a generous nature has been suffered to take her own way to perfection; when I reflect upon these effects, when I see how profitable they have been to us, I feel all the pride of power sink and all presumption in the wisdom of human contrivances melt and die away within me. My vigour relents. I pardon something to the spirit of liberty.”

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

“Reflect how you are to govern a people who think they ought to be free, and think they are not. Your scheme yields no revenue; it yields nothing but discontent, disorder, disobedience; and such is the state of America, that after wading up to your eyes in blood, you could only end just where you begun; that is, to tax where no revenue is to be found, to — my voice fails me; my inclination indeed carries me no farther — all is confusion beyond it.”

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First Speech on the Conciliation with America (1774)

“Toleration is good for all, or it is good for none.”

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Speech on the Bill for the Relief of Protestant Dissenters (7 March 1773)
1770s

“If we owe to it [civil society] any duty, it is not subject to our will. Duties are not voluntary. Duty and will are even contradictory terms. Now though civil society might be at first a voluntary act (which in many cases it undoubtedly was) its continuance is under a permanent standing covenant, coexisting with the society; and it attaches upon every individual of that society, without any formal act of his own. This is warranted by the general practice, arising out of the general sense of mankind.”

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Edmund Burke livre An Appeal from the New to the Old Whigs

Source: An Appeal from the New to the Old Whigs (1791), p. 442

“Nothing is so fatal to religion as indifference.”

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Letter to William Smith, Member of the Irish Parliament (29 January 1795), quoted in R. B. McDowell (ed.), The Correspondence of Edmund Burke, Volume VIII: September 1794–April 1796 (Cambridge University Press, 1969), p. 128
/ 1790s

“It is the function of a judge not to make but to declare the law, according to the golden mete-wand of the law and not by the crooked cord of discretion.”

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Preface to Brissot's Address (1794)
1790s

“Because half-a-dozen grasshoppers under a fern make the field ring with their importunate chink, whilst thousands of great cattle, reposed beneath the shadow of the British oak, chew the cud and are silent, pray do not imagine that those who make the noise are the only inhabitants of the field; that of course they are many in number; or that, after all, they are other than the little shrivelled, meagre, hopping, though loud and troublesome insects of the hour.”

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Edmund Burke livre Reflections on the Revolution in France

Volume iii, p. 344
Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790)

“Men without their choice derive benefits from that association; without their choice they are subjected to duties in consequence of these benefits; and without their choice they enter into a virtual obligation as binding as any that is actual. Look through the whole of life and the whole system of duties. Much the strongest moral obligations are such as were never the results of our option. I allow, that if no supreme ruler exists, wise to form, and potent to enforce, the moral law, there is no sanction to any contract, virtual or even actual, against the will of prevalent power. On that hypothesis, let any set of men be strong enough to set their duties at defiance, and they cease to be duties any longer.”

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Edmund Burke livre An Appeal from the New to the Old Whigs

Source: An Appeal from the New to the Old Whigs (1791), p. 442

“Those who have been once intoxicated with power, and have derived any kind of emolument from it, even though but for one year, never can willingly abandon it. They may be distressed in the midst of all their power; but they will never look to any thing but power for their relief.”

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Letter to a Member of the National Assembly (1791)
A Letter to a Member of the National Assembly (1791)

“I have in general no very exalted opinion of the virtue of paper government.”

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Second Speech on Conciliation with America (1775)

“One that confounds good and evil is an enemy to the good.”

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

“Circumstances (which with some gentlemen pass for nothing) give in reality to every political principle its distinguishing colour, and discriminating effect. The circumstances are what render every civil and political scheme beneficial or noxious to mankind.”

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Edmund Burke livre Reflections on the Revolution in France

Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790)

“"War," says Machiavel, "ought to be the only study of a prince;" and by a prince he means every sort of state, however constituted. "He ought," says this great political doctor, "to consider peace only as a breathing-time, which gives him leisure to contrive, and furnishes ability to execute military plans." A meditation on the conduct of political societies made old Hobbes imagine that war was the state of nature.”

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Edmund Burke livre A Vindication of Natural Society

A Vindication of Natural Society (1756)

“No sound ought to be heard in the church but the healing voice of Christian charity.”

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Edmund Burke livre Reflections on the Revolution in France

Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790)

“Frugality is founded on the principle that all riches have limits.”

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Speech on the Independence of Parliament (1780)

“They defend their errors as if they were defending their inheritance.”

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Speech on the Independence of Parliament (1780)

“To execute laws is a royal office; to execute orders is not to be a king. However, a political executive magistracy, though merely such, is a great trust.”

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Edmund Burke livre Reflections on the Revolution in France

Volume iii, p. 497
Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790)

“All those instances to be found in history, whether real or fabulous, of a doubtful public spirit, at which morality is perplexed, reason is staggered, and from which affrighted Nature recoils, are their chosen and almost sole examples for the instruction of their youth.”

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No. 1, volume v, p. 286
Letters On a Regicide Peace (1796)

“The wise will determine from the gravity of the case; the irritable from sensibility to oppression; the high-minded from disdain and indignation at abusive power in unworthy hands.”

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Edmund Burke livre Reflections on the Revolution in France

Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790)

“A state without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation.”

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Edmund Burke livre Reflections on the Revolution in France

Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790)

“The first and the simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind is Curiosity.”

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

Part I Section I
A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful (1757)

“The art of substantiating shadows, and of lending existence to nothing.”

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Burke's description of poetry, quoted from his conversation in Prior's Life of Burke
Undated

“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.”

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The reference is to Charles Townshend (1725–1767)
First Speech on the Conciliation with America (1774)

“Economy is a distributive virtue, and consists not in saving but selection. Parsimony requires no providence, no sagacity, no powers of combination, no comparison, no judgment.”

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Edmund Burke A Letter to a Noble Lord

A Letter to a Noble Lord (1796)

“Young man, there is America — which at this day serves for little more than to amuse you with stories of savage men and uncouth manners; yet shall, before you taste of death, show itself equal to the whole of that commerce which now attracts the envy of the world.”

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Works of Edmund Burke Volume ii, p. 115
Second Speech on Conciliation with America (1775)

“A conscientious man would be cautious how he dealt in blood.”

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Letter to the Sheriffs of Bristol (3 April 1777); as published in The Works of the Right Hon. Edmund Burke (1899), vol. 2, p. 206
1770s

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