05c. 1763 ADIt is our ignorance of things that causes all our admiration and chiefly excites our passions.Edmund Burke / quote ↗
06c. 1763 ADSociety is indeed a contract ... it becomes a participant not only between those who are living, those who are dead, and those who are to be born.Edmund Burke / quote ↗
07c. 1763 ADSociety is indeed a contract. ... It is a partnership in all science; a partnership in all art; a partnership in every virtue, and in all perfection.Edmund Burke / quote ↗
08c. 1763 ADIf we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free. If our wealth commands us, we are poor indeed.Edmund Burke / quote ↗
09c. 1763 ADThe only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.Edmund Burke / quote ↗
10c. 1763 ADAll That Is Needed For Evil To Succeeded, Is For Good People To Do NothingEdmund Burke / quote ↗
11c. 1763 ADAll that is necessary for evil to succeed is that good men do nothing.Edmund Burke / quote ↗
12c. 1763 ADWhatever is fitted in any sort to excite the ideas of pain, and danger, that is to say, whatever is in any sort terrible, or is conversant about terrible objects, or operates in a manner analogous to terror, is a source of the sublime; that is, it is productive of the strongest emotion which the mind is capable of feeling .... When danger or pain press too nearly, they are incapable of giving any delight, and [yet] with certain modifications, they may be, and they are delightful, as we every day experience.Edmund Burke / quote ↗
13c. 1763 ADIf ever we should find ourselves disposed not to admire those writers or artists, Livy and Virgil for instance, Raphael or Michael Angelo, whom all the learned had admired, [we ought] not to follow our own fancies, but to study them until we know how and what we ought to admire; and if we cannot arrive at this combination of admiration with knowledge, rather to believe that we are dull, than that the rest of the world has been imposed on.Edmund Burke / quote ↗
14c. 1763 ADAn ignorant man, who is not fool enough to meddle with his clock, is however sufficiently confident to think he can safely take to pieces, and put together at his pleasure, a moral machine of another guise, importance and complexity, composed of far other wheels, and springs, and balances, and counteracting and co-operating powers. Men little think how immorally they act in rashly meddling with what they do not understand. Their delusive good intention is no sort of excuse for their presumption. They who truly mean well must be fearful of acting ill.Edmund Burke / quote ↗
16c. 1763 ADThe 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 which may be soon turned into complaints.Edmund Burke / quote ↗
17c. 1763 ADCertainly, Gentlemen, it ought to be the happiness and glory of a representative to live in the strictest union, the closest correspondence, and the most unreserved communication with his constituents. Their wishes ought to have great weight with him; their opinions high respect; their business unremitted attention. It is his duty to sacrifice his repose, his /pleasure, his satisfactions, to theirs/, --- and above all, ever, and in all cases, to prefer their interest to his own.But his unbiased opinion, his mature judgement, his enlightened conscience, he ought not to sacrifice to you, to any man, or to any set of men living. These he does not derive from your pleasure, --- no, nor from the law and the Constitution. They are a trust from Providence, for the abuse of which he is deeply answerable. Your Representative owes you, not his industry only, but his judgement; and he betrays, instead of serving you, if he sacrifices it to your opinions.Edmund Burke / quote ↗
18c. 1763 ADThe proposition is peace. Not peace through the medium of war; not peace to be hunted through the labyrinth of intricate and endless negotiations; not peace to arise out of universal discord, fomented from principle, in all parts of the empire; not peace to depend on the juridical determination of perplexing questions, or the precise marking the shadowy boundaries of a complex government. It is simple peace, sought in its natural course and in its ordinary haunts. It is peace sought in the spirit of peace, and laid in principles purely pacific.Edmund Burke / quote ↗
19c. 1763 ADBut when the leaders choose to make themselves bidders at an auction of popularity, their talents, in the construction of the state, will be of no service. They will become flatterers instead of legislators; the instruments, not the guides, of the people. If any of them should happen to propose a scheme of liberty, soberly limited, and defined with proper qualifications, he will be immediately outbid by his competitors, who will produce something more splendidly popular. Suspicions will be raised of his fidelity to his cause. Moderation will be stigmatized as the virtue of cowards; and compromise as the prudence of traitors; until, in hopes of preserving the credit which may enable him to temper, and moderate, on some occasions, the popular leader is obliged to become active in propagating doctrines, and establishing powers, that will afterwards defeat any sober purpose at which he ultimately might have aimed.Edmund Burke / quote ↗
21c. 1763 ADHe that accuses all mankind of corruption ought to remember that he is sure to convict only one.Edmund Burke / quote ↗
22c. 1763 ADI have not yet lost a feeling of wonder, and of delight, that the delicate motion should reside in all the things around us, revealing itself only to him who looks for it.Edmund Burke / quote ↗
23c. 1763 ADIt is generally, in the season of prosperity that men discover their real temper, principles and design.Edmund Burke / quote ↗
