An event had happened, upon which it is difficult to speak, and impossible to be silent.

—Edmund Burke

About Edmund Burke

Portrait of Edmund Burke

Edmund Burke (; 12 January [NS] 1729 – 9 July 1797) was an Anglo-Irish writer, philosopher, and politician who is widely credited as the founder of the cultural and political philosophy of conservatism. Regarded as one of the most influential conservative thinkers and political writers of the 18th century, Burke...

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To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.

—Edmund Burke

Never despair; but if you do, work on in despair.

—Edmund Burke

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To make us love our country, our country ought to be lovely.

—Edmund Burke

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

—Edmund Burke

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It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact.

—Edmund Burke

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I have long since come to believe that people never mean half of what they say, and that it is best to disregard their talk and judge only their actions.

You cannot have a proud and chivalrous spirit if your conduct is mean and paltry; for whatever a man's actions are, such must be his spirit.

The superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions.

Deliberation is the function of the many; action is the function of one.

—Charles De Gaulle

Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting a particular way… you become just by performing just actions, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave actions.

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