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

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Edmund Burke wäre heute 294 Jahre, 4 Monate, 24 Tage oder 107.525 Tage alt.

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

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

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• It is the love of the people; it is their attachment to their government, from the sense of the deep stake they have in such a glorious institution, which gives you your army and your navy, and infuses into both that liberal obedience, without which your army would be a base rabble, and your navy nothing but rotten timber.

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• It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact; and great trade will always be attended with considerable abuses.

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• It is therefore our business carefully to cultivate in our minds, to rear to the most perfect vigour and maturity, every sort of generous and honest feeling that belongs to our nature. To bring the dispositions that are lovely in private life into the service and conduct of the commonwealth; so to be patriots, as not to forget we are gentlemen.

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• Kings will be tyrants from policy when subjects are rebels from principle.

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• Laws, like houses, lean on one another.

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• Learning will be cast into the mire, and trodden down under the hoofs of a swinish multitude.

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• Let us only suffer any person to tell us his story morning and evening, but for twelve months, and he will become our master.

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• Liberty too must be limited in order to be possessed.

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• Liberty, too, must be limited in order to be possessed.

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

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• Make the Revolution a parent of settlement, and not a nursery of future revolutions.

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• Man is by his constitution a religious animal; atheism is against not only our reason, but our instincts.

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• Many of the greatest tyrants on the records of history have begun their reigns in the faires manner. But this unnatural power corrupts both the heart and the understanding.

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• Men who undertake considerable things, even in a regular way, ought to give us ground to pressume ability.

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• Mere parsimony is not economy . . . Expense, and great expense, may be an essential part in true economoy . . . Economy is a distributive virtue, and consists, not in saving, but in selection.

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• Never, no never, did Nature say one thing and Wisdom say another.

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• Next to love sympathy is the divinest passion of the human heart.

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• No men can act with effect who do not act in concert; no men can act in concert who do not act with confidence; no men can act with confidence who are not bound together with common opinions, common affections, and common interests.

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• No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.

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