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

Edmund Burke · Geburtsdatum · Sterbedatum

Edmund Burke wäre heute 295 Jahre, 8 Monate, 7 Tage oder 107.997 Tage alt.

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

• The cold neutrality of an impartial judge.

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• The concessions of the weak are the concessions of fear.

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• The conduct of a losing party never appears right: at least it never can possess the only infallible criterion of wisdom to vulgar judgements-success.

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• The great difference between the real statesman and the pretender is, that the one sees into the future, while the other regards only the present; the one lives by the day, and acts on expedience; the other acts on enduring principles and for immortality.

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• The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.
  • Paul Catty spricht . . .

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• The king, and his faithful subjects, the lords and commons of this realm, - the triple cord, which no man can break.

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• The march of the human mind is slow.

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• The nerve that never relaxes, the eye that never blanches, the thought that never wanders, the purpose that never wavers - these are the masters of victory.

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• The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.

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• The people are the masters.

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• The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion.

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• The power of the crown, almost dead and rotten as Prerogative, has grown up anew, with much more strength, and far less odium, under the name of Influence.

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• The same sun which gilds all nature, and exhilirates the whole creation, does not shine upon disappointed ambition.

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• The silent touches of time.

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• The true danger is, when liberty is nibbled away, for expedience, and by parts.

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• The unbought grace of life, the cheap defence of nations, the nurse of manly sentiment and heroic enterprise is gone! It is gone, that sensibility of principle, that chastity of honour, which felt a stain like a wound, which inspired courage whilst it mitigated ferocity, which ennobled whatever it touched, and under which vice itself lost half its evil, by losing all its grossness.

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• The use of force alone is but temporary. It may subdue for a moment; but it does not remove the necessity of subduing again; and a nation is not governed, which is perpetually to be conquered.

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• There is a courageous wisdom; there is also a false reptile prudence, the result, not of caution, but of fear.

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• There is but one law for all; namely the law which governs all law - the law of our Creator, the law of humanity, justice, equity; the law of nature and of nations.

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• There is nothing in the world really beneficial that does not lie within the reach of an informed understanding and a well-protected pursuit.

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