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Edmund Burke (1729 – 1797) was an Anglo-Irish statesman and philosopher. Born in Dublin, Burke served as a member of parliament (MP) between 1766 and 1794 in the House of Commons with the Whig Party after moving to London in 1750. Burke was a proponent of underpinning virtues with manners in society and of the importance of religious institutions for the moral stability and good of the state. These views were expressed in his A Vindication of Natural Society . He criticized British treatment of the American colonies, including through its taxation policies. Burke also supported the rights of the colonists to resist metropolitan authority, although he opposed the attempt to achieve independence
“Reading without reflecting is like eating without digesting.”
“Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little…the only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.”
“Rudeness is the weak man’s imitation of strength.”
“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. Those who know what virtuous liberty is, cannot bear to see it disgraced by incapable heads, on account of their having high-sounding words in their mouths.”
“Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods."
“No power so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.”
“He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper.”
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- - - - - - -“Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little…the only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.”
“Rudeness is the weak man’s imitation of strength.”
“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. Those who know what virtuous liberty is, cannot bear to see it disgraced by incapable heads, on account of their having high-sounding words in their mouths.”
“Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods."
“No power so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.”
“He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper.”
