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Edmund Burke ír író, whig párti politikus, politikai gondolkodó, a modern brit konzervatív politika egyik megteremtője volt. Wikipedia  

✵ 12. január 1729 – 9. július 1797   •   Más nevek Эдмунд Берк, ਐਡਮੰਡ ਬਰਕੀ
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Edmund Burke híres idézetei

„Egy nő nem azért él, hogy mindenki csodálja őt, hanem azért, hogy egy férfit boldoggá tegyen.”

Edmund Burke

„Senki sem követett el nagyobb hibát, mint az, aki nem tett semmit, mert azt hitte, hogy csak keveset tehetett volna.”

Edmund Burke

„De mi a szabadság bölcsesség és erény nélkül? A lehető legroszabb dolog minden lehetséges rossz közül; mert a szabadság butaság, erkölcstelenség és őrület, tanítás és fékezés nélkül.”

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Edmund Burke: Idézetek angolul

“Old religious factions are volcanoes burnt out.”

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Speech on the Petition of the Unitarians (11 May 1792)
1790s

“So to be patriots as not to forget we are gentlemen.”

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Edmund Burke könyv Thoughts on the Cause of the Present Discontents

Thoughts on the Cause of the Present Discontents (1770)

“There is a sort of enthusiasm in all projectors, absolutely necessary for their affairs, which makes them proof against the most fatiguing delays, the most mortifying disappointments, the most shocking insults; and, what is severer than all, the presumptuous judgement of the ignorant upon their designs.”

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An account of the European Settlements in America (1757), pp. 19-20, in The Works of Edmund Burke in Nine Volumes, Vol. IX. Boston: Little, Brown (1839)
1750s

“Superstition is the religion of feeble minds.”

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Edmund Burke könyv Reflections on the Revolution in France

Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790)

“The unbought grace of life, the cheap defence of nations, the nurse of manly sentiment and heroic enterprise, is gone!”

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Edmund Burke könyv Reflections on the Revolution in France

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

“In their nomination to office they will not appoint to the exercise of authority as to a pitiful job, but as to a holy function.”

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Edmund Burke könyv Reflections on the Revolution in France

Volume iii, p. 356
Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790)

“Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver.”

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Edmund Burke könyv Reflections on the Revolution in France

Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790)

“I cannot conceive how any man can have brought himself to that pitch of presumption, to consider his country as nothing but carte blanche, upon which he may scribble whatever he pleases.”

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Edmund Burke könyv Reflections on the Revolution in France

Volume iii, p. 231
Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790)

“Mere parsimony is not economy. Expense, and great expense, may be an essential part in true economy.”

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Edmund Burke A Letter to a Noble Lord

A Letter to a Noble Lord (1796)

“And having looked to Government for bread, on the very first scarcity they will turn and bite the hand that fed them.”

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Thoughts and Details on Scarcity (1795)
Thoughts and Details on Scarcity (1795)

“Early and provident fear is the mother of safety.”

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Speech on the Petition of the Unitarians (11 May 1792), volume vii, p. 50
1790s

“When we speak of the commerce with our [American] colonies, fiction lags after truth, invention is unfruitful, and imagination cold and barren.”

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Works of Edmund Burke Volume ii, p. 116
Second Speech on Conciliation with America (1775)

“Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants. Men have a right that these wants should be provided for by this wisdom.”

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Edmund Burke könyv Reflections on the Revolution in France

Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790)

“There is nothing that God has judged good for us that He has not given us the means to accomplish, both in the natural and the moral world.”

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Reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 261
Undated

“The cold neutrality of an impartial judge.”

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Preface to Brissot's Address (1794)
1790s

“When Croft's "Life of Dr. Young" was spoken of as a good imitation of Dr. Johnson's style, "No, no," said he, "it is not a good imitation of Johnson; it has all his pomp without his force; it has all the nodosities of the oak, without its strength; it has all the contortions of the sibyl, without the inspiration."”

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Comment quoted by Matthew Prior in his Life of Burke
Undated

“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.”

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Thoughts and Details on Scarcity (1795)
Thoughts and Details on Scarcity (1795)

“That chastity of honour which felt a stain like a wound.”

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Edmund Burke könyv Reflections on the Revolution in France

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

“They made and recorded a sort of institute and digest of anarchy, called the Rights of Man.”

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On the Army Estimates (9 February 1790)
1790s

“Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom; and a great empire and little minds go ill together.”

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Second Speech on Conciliation with America (1775)

“I decline the election. — It has ever been my rule through life, to observe a proportion between my efforts and my objects. I have never been remarkable for a bold, active, and sanguine pursuit of advantages that are personal to myself.”

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Speech at Bristol on declining the poll (9 September 1780)
1780s

“All men that are ruined, are ruined on the side of their natural propensities.”

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

“I have never yet seen any plan which has not been mended by the observation of those who were much inferior in understanding to the person who took the lead in the business.”

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Edmund Burke könyv Reflections on the Revolution in France

Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790)

“By adverting to the dignity of this high calling our ancestors have turned a savage wilderness into a glorious empire: and have made the most extensive, and the only honorable conquests, not by destroying, but by promoting the wealth, the number, the happiness of the human race.”

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Second Speech on Conciliation with America (1775)

“Gentlemen, the melancholy event of yesterday reads to us an awful lesson against being too much troubled about any of the objects of ordinary ambition. The worthy gentleman, who has been snatched from us at the moment of the election, and in the middle of contest, whilst his desires were as warm, and his hopes as eager as ours, has feelingly told us, what shadows we are, and what shadows we pursue.”

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Speech at Bristol on declining the poll (9 September 1780), referring to a Mr. Richard Coombe.
1780s

“Society can overlook murder, adultery or swindling — it never forgives the preaching of a new gospel.”

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Actually from Frederic Harrison's essay "Ruskin as Prophet", in his Tennyson, Ruskin, Mill, and Other Literary Estimates (1899).
Misattributed

“There is, however, a limit at which forbearance ceases to be a virtue.”

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Observations on a Late Publication on the Present State of the Nation (1769), volume i, p. 273
1760s

“Applaud us when we run, console us when we fall, cheer us when we recover.”

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Speech at Bristol Previous to the Election (6 September 1780)
1780s