There are some men formed with feelings so blunt that they can hardly be said to be awake during the whole course of their lives. Edmund Burke More Quotes by Edmund Burke More Quotes From Edmund Burke All human laws are, properly speaking, only declaratory; they may alter the mode and application, but have no power over the substance of original justice. Edmund Burke judging law justice I cannot help concurring with the opinion that an absolute democracy, no more than absolute monarchy, is to be reckoned among the legitimate forms of government. Edmund Burke democracy government helping Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other. Edmund Burke example children school Parliament is a deliberative assembly of one nation.You choose a Member indeed; but when you have chosen him, heisnotthe Member for Bristol, but heisa Member of Parliament. Edmund Burke bristol members parliament To make us love our country, our country ought to be lovely. Edmund Burke patriotic love country Superstition is the religion of feeble minds. Edmund Burke mind inspirational religion For my part, I am convinced that the method of teaching which approaches most nearly to the method of investigation is incomparably the best; since, not content with serving up a few barren and lifeless truths, it leads to the stock on which they grew. Edmund Burke barren investigation teaching Toleration is good for all, or it is good for none. Edmund Burke tolerance compassion justice Wars are just to those to whom they are necessary. Edmund Burke total-war war My good friends, while I do most earnestly recommend you to take care of your health and safety, as things most precious to us, I would not have that care degenerate into an effeminate and over-curious attention, which is always disgraceful to a man's self, and often troublesome to others. Edmund Burke good-friend self men Religion, to have any force upon men's understandings,--indeed, to exist at all,--must be supposed paramount to law, and independent for its substance upon any human institution, else it would be the absurdest thing in the world,--an acknowledged cheat. Edmund Burke independent law men Free trade is not based on utility but on justice. Edmund Burke free-trade trade justice Justice is itself the great standing policy of civil society; and any eminent departure from it, under any circumstances, lies under the suspicion of being no policy at all. Edmund Burke abortion justice lying There is a boundary to men's passions when they act from feelings; but none when they are under the influence of imagination. Edmund Burke creativity passion peace The whole compass of the language is tried to find sinonimies [synonyms] and circumlocutions for massacres and murder. Things never called by their common names. Massacre is sometimes called agitation, sometimes effervescence, sometimes excess sometimes too continued an exercise of revolutionary power. Edmund Burke agitation names exercise The only infallible criterion of wisdom to vulgar minds - success. Edmund Burke criteria mind success Facts are to the mind what food is to the body. On the due digestion of the former depend the strength and wisdom of the one, just as vigor and health depend on the other. The wisest in council, the ablest in debate, and the most agreeable companion in the commerce of human life, is that man who has assimilated to his understanding the greatest number of facts. Edmund Burke understanding numbers men When a great man has some one object in view to be achieved in a given time, it may be absolutely necessary for him to walk out of all the common roads. Edmund Burke time motivational men We must not always judge of the generality of the opinion by the noise of the acclamation. Edmund Burke civil-rights liberty judging The power of perpetuating our property in our families is one of the most valuable and interesting circumstances belonging to it, and that which tends most to the perpetuation of society itself. It makes our weakness subservient to our virtue; it grafts benevolence even upon avarice. The possession of family wealth and of the distinction which attends hereditary possessions (as most concerned in it,) are the natural securities for this transmission. Edmund Burke ancestry weakness interesting
