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

Edmund Burke · Geburtsdatum · Sterbedatum

Edmund Burke wäre heute 294 Jahre, 2 Monate, 8 Tage oder 107.448 Tage alt.

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

• Nobility is a graceful ornament to the civil order. It is the Corinthian capital of polished society.

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• Not merely a chip of the old 'block', but the old block itself.

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• Nothing in progression can rest on its original plan. We may as well think of rocking a grown man in the cradle of an infant.

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• Nothing less will content me, than whole America.

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• Of this stamp is the cant of Not men, but measures; a sort of charm by which many people get loose from every honourable engagement.

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• Old religious factions are volcanoes burnt out.

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• Our patience will achieve more than our force.

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• Parties must ever exist in a free country.

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• People crushed by law have no hopes but from power. If laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to laws; and those, who have much to hope and nothing to lose, will always be dangerous, more or less.

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• People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors.

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• Prudence is a quality incompatible with vice, and can never be effectively enlisted in its cause.

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• Refined policy has ever been the parent of confusion, and ever will be so, as long as the world endures. Plain good intention, which is as easily discovered at the first view as fraud is surely detected at last, is of no mean force in the government of mankind. Genuine simplicity of heart is a healing and cementing principle.

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• Religious persecution may shield itself under the guise of a mistaken and over-zealous piety.

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

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• Society is a partnership in all science; a partnership in all art; a partnership in every virtue and in all perfection. As the ends of such a partnership cannot be obtained in many generations, it becomes a partnership not only between those who are living, but between those who are dead and those who are to be born.

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• Society is indeed a contract . . . it becomes a partnership not only between those who are living, but between those who are living, those who are dead, and those who are to be born.

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• Somebody has said, that a king may make a nobleman but he cannot make a gentleman.

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• Superstition is the religion of feeble minds.

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• Taxing is an easy business. Any projector can contrive new impositions; any bungler can add to the old; but is it altogether wise to have no other bounds to your impositions than the patience of those who are to bear them?

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• The age of chivalry is gone. - That of sophisters, economists, and calculators, has succeeded; and the glory of Europe is extinguished for ever.

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