Edmund Burke

(1729–1797) · Anglo-Irish Writer, philosopher, and politician

Edmund Burke was an Anglo-Irish writer, philosopher, and politician who is widely credited as the founder of the cultural and political philosophy of conservatism.

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Edmund Burke

(1729–1797) · Anglo-Irish Writer, philosopher, and politician

Edmund Burke was an Anglo-Irish writer, philosopher, and politician who is widely credited as the founder of the cultural and political philosophy of conservatism.

Whilst shame keeps its watch, virtue is not wholly extinguished in the heart; nor will moderation be utterly exiled from the minds of tyrants.
Falsehood is a perennial spring.
Frugality is founded on the principal that all riches have limits.
To tax and to please, no more than to love and to be wise, is not given to men.
Slavery is a weed that grows on every soil.
Religious persecution may shield itself under the guise of a mistaken and over-zealous piety.
The march of the human mind is slow.
The most important of all revolutions, a revolution in sentiments, manners and moral opinions.
I have never yet seen any plan which has not been mended by the observations of those who were much inferior in understanding to the person who took the lead in the business.
To innovate is not to reform.

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