Share & Save
Meaning
Not documented yet.
When It Was Said
Not documented yet.
Who It Was Said To
Not documented yet.
Historical Context
Not documented yet.
Source
Not documented yet.
Original Language & Translation
Originally said in English.
Did They Really Say It?
Not documented yet.
Did You Know?
Not documented yet.
About Edmund Burke
Anglo-Irish writer, philosopher, and politician
Edmund Burke was an Anglo-Irish writer, philosopher, and politician. He is widely credited as a founder of conservatism in its cultural and political form, and is regarded as one of the most influential conservative thinkers and political writers of the 18th century. Burke spent most of his career in Great Britain and sat in the House of Commons as a Whig MP from 1766 to 1794. His writings helped shape public opinion in Great Britain and France after the French Revolution in 1789, and he remains a major reference point in modern conservative circles.
More from Edmund Burke (112 quotes) →Other sayings from Edmund Burke
- “The effect of liberty to individuals is that they may do what they please: we ought to see what it will pleas…”Edmund Burke
- “An ignorant man, who is not fool enough to meddle with his clock, is however sufficiently confident to think…”Edmund Burke
- “Liberty must be limited in order to be possessed.”Edmund Burke
- “Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny.”Edmund Burke
Explore Nature
- “Sentimentality about nature denatures everything it touches.”Jane Jacobs
- “It is our attitude toward events, not events themselves, which we can control. Nothing is by its own nature c…”Epictetus
- “It's in our nature. We need to explore and find out what's going on outside of who we are.”Billy Dee Williams
More Change quotes
READ THE SOURCE
Books by Edmund Burke
Reflections on the revolution in France
2009
A philosophical enquiry into the origin of our ideas of the sublime and beautiful
1987
Optimal Muscle Performance and Recovery
2003