Category: Edmund Burke

Edmund Burke PC (/bɜrk/; 12 January [NS] 1729 – 9 July 1797) was an Anglo-Irish statesman born in Dublin, as well as an author, orator, political theorist, and philosopher, who, after moving to England, served for many years in the House of Commons of Great Britain as a member of the Whig party.

Edmund Burke

Ambition can creep as well as soar.

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Edmund Burke

I have in general no very exalted opinion of the virtue of paper government.

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Edmund Burke

The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.

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Edmund Burke

we ought to see what it will please them to do, before we risk congratulations.

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The effect of liberty to individuals is that they may do what they please: we ought to see what it will please them to do, before we risk congratulations.