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

Edmund Burke · Geburtsdatum · Sterbedatum

Edmund Burke wäre heute 295 Jahre, 9 Monate, 1 Tag oder 108.021 Tage alt.

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

• There is nothing that God has judged good for us that He has not given us the means to accomplish, both in the natural and moral world. If we cry, like children, for the moon, like children we must cry on.

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• There is, however, a limit at which forbearance ceases to be a virtue.

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• There ought to be a system of manners in every nation which a well-formed mind would be disposed to relish. To make us love our country, our country ought to be lovely.

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• This barbarous philosophy, which is the offspring of cold hearts and muddy understandings.

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• Those who attempt to level never equalize. In all societies some description must be uppermost. The levellers, therefore, only change and pervert the natural order of things; they load the edifice of society by setting up in the air what the solidity of the structure requires to be on the ground.

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• Those who have been once intoxicated with power, and have derived any kind of emolument from it, even though for but one year, can never willingly abandon it.

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• To complain of the age we live in, to murmur at the present possessors of power, to lament the past, to conceive extravagant hopes of the future, are the common dispositions of the greatest part of mankind.

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• To innovate is not to reform.

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• To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.

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• To tax and to please, no more than to love and to be wise, is not given to men.

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• Toleration is good for all or it is good for none.

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• Too much idleness, I have observed, fills up a man's time much more completely, and leaves him less his own master, than any other sort of employment whatsoever.

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• Tyrants seldom want pretexts.

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• We are afraid to put men to live and trade each on his own private stock of reason; because we suspect that this stock in each man is small, and that the individuals would do better to avail themselves of the general bank and capital of nations and of age.

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• We begin our public affections in our families. No cold relation is a zealous citizen.

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• We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.

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• We must soften into a credulity below the milkiness of infancy to think all men virtuous. We must be tainted with a malignity truly diabolical, to believe all the world to be equally wicked and corrupt.

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• Well is it known that ambition can creep as well as soar.

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• Well it is known that ambition can creep and soar.

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• Whatever each man can separately do, without trespassing upon others, he has a right to do for himself; and he has a right to a fair portion of all which society, with all its combinations of skill and force, can do in his favour.

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