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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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“A definition may be very exact, and yet go but a very little way towards informing us of the nature of the thing defined.”

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

Introduction On Taste
A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful (1757)

“The person who grieves, suffers his passion to grow upon him; he indulges it, he loves it; but this never happens in the case of actual pain, which no man ever willingly endured for any considerable time.”

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

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

“So far as it has gone, it probably is the most pure and defecated publick good which ever has been conferred on mankind.”

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

On the Polish Constitution of May 3, 1791
Forrás: An Appeal from the New to the Old Whigs (1791), p. 463

“Some decent regulated pre-eminence, some preference (not exclusive appropriation) given to birth, is neither unnatural, nor unjust, nor impolite.”

Edmund Burke könyv Reflections on the Revolution in France

Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790)

“Abstract liberty, like other mere abstractions, is not to be found.”

Second Speech on Conciliation with America (1775)

“Slavery they can have anywhere. It is a weed that grows in every soil.”

Second Speech on Conciliation with America (1775)

“Good order is the foundation of all good things.”

Edmund Burke könyv Reflections on the Revolution in France

Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790)

“No man can mortgage his injustice as a pawn for his fidelity.”

Edmund Burke könyv Reflections on the Revolution in France

Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790)

“Resolved to die in the last dike of prevarication.”

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

“Men who undertake considerable things, even in a regular way, ought to give us ground to presume ability.”

Edmund Burke könyv Reflections on the Revolution in France

Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790)

“Boldness formerly was not the character of Atheists as such. … But of late they are grown active, designing, turbulent, and seditious.”

"Thoughts on French Affairs" (December 1791), in Three Memorials on French Affairs (1797), p. 53
1790s

“Writers, especially when they act in a body and with one direction, have great influence on the public mind.”

Edmund Burke könyv Reflections on the Revolution in France

Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790)

“You had that action and counteraction which, in the natural and in the political world, from the reciprocal struggle of discordant powers draws out the harmony of the universe.”

Edmund Burke könyv Reflections on the Revolution in France

Volume iii, p. 277
Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790)

“Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other.”

No. 1, volume v, p. 331
Letters On a Regicide Peace (1796)

“He was not merely a chip of the old Block, but the old Block itself.”

On Pitt's First Speech (26 February 1781), from Wraxall's Memoirs, First Series, vol. i. p. 342
1780s

“The writers against religion, whilst they oppose every system, are wisely careful never to set up any of their own.”

Edmund Burke könyv A Vindication of Natural Society

Preface
A Vindication of Natural Society (1756)

“If you can be well without health, you may be happy without virtue.”

First known in Thomas Fuller's Gnomologia: Adages and Proverbs (1732), but not found in the writings of Edmund Burke.
Misattributed

“The arrogance of age must submit to be taught by youth.”

Letter to http://books.google.com/books?id=JsCV9BpMko4C&pg=PA107&dq=%22arrogance+of+age+must+submit+to+be+taught+by+youth%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=RoPSUs_hA83okQeTz4CQCw&ved=0CC8Q6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=%22arrogance%20of%20age%20must%20submit%20to%20be%20taught%20by%20youth%22&f=false Frances Burney (29 July 1782)
1780s