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Publizist, Politiker, Philosoph (Irland, 1729 - 1797).

Edmund Burke · Geburtsdatum · Sterbedatum

Edmund Burke wäre heute 295 Jahre, 8 Monate, 22 Tage oder 108.012 Tage alt.

Geboren am 12.01.1729 in Dublin
Gestorben am 09.07.1797 in Beaconsfield/London
Sternzeichen: ♑ Steinbock

• He who calls in the aid of an equal understanding doubles his own; and he who profits of a superior understanding raises his powers to a level with the height of the superior understanding he unites with.

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• His virtues were his arts.

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• 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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• I am not one of those who think that the people are never in the wrong. They have been so, frequently and outrageously, both in other countries and in this. But I do say, that in all disputes between them and their rulers, the presumption is at least upon a par in favour of the people.

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• I do not know the method of drawing up an indictment against a whole people.

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• I do not want actors and actresses to understand my plays. That is not necessary. If they will only pronounce the correct sounds I can guarantee the results.

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• I flatter myself that I love a manly, moral, regulated liberty as well as any gentleman.

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

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• I know many have been taught to think that moderation, in a case like this, is a sort of treason.

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• I know of nothing sublime which is not some modification of power.

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• If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free; if our wealth commands us, we are poor indeed.

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• In all forms of Government the people is the true legislator.

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• In the groves of their academy, at the end of every vista, you see nothing but the gallows.

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• Individuals pass like shadows; but the commonwealth is fixed and stable.

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• Instead of a standing revenue, you will have therefore a perpetual quarrel.

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• Is it in destroying and pulling down that skill is displayed? The shallowest understanding, the rudest hand, is more than equal to the task.

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• It is a general error to suppose the loudest complainers for the public to be the most anxious for the welfare.

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• It is a general popular error to imagine the loudest complainers for the public to be the most anxious for its welfare.

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• It is necessary only for the good man to do nothing for evil to triumph.

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• It is not what a lawyer tells me I may do, but what humanity, reason and justice tell me I ought to do.

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