Edmund Burke: Frases em inglês

Frases em inglês.
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“It is a general popular error to suppose the loudest complainers for the publick to be the most anxious for its welfare.”

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Edmund Burke

Observations on a Late Publication on the Present State of the Nation (1769)
1760s

“It is not, what a lawyer tells me I may do; but what humanity, reason, and justice, tell me I ought to do.”

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Edmund Burke

Fonte: Second Speech on Conciliation with America (1775)

“Kings will be tyrants from policy, when subjects are rebels from principle.”

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Edmund Burke livro Reflections on the Revolution in France

Volume iii, p. 334
Fonte: Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790)

“There is a boundary to men's passions when they act from feeling; none when they are under the influence of imagination.”

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Edmund Burke livro An Appeal from the New to the Old Whigs

Fonte: An Appeal from the New to the Old Whigs (1791), p. 460

“I 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.”

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“The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion.”

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Speech at a County Meeting of Buckinghamshire (1784)
1780s

“The use of force alone is but temporary. It may subdue for a moment; but it does not remove the necessity of subduing again: and a nation is not governed, which is perpetually to be conquered.”

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Edmund Burke

Second Speech on Conciliation with America (1775)

“The human mind is often, and I think it is for the most part, in a state neither of pain nor pleasure, which I call a state of indifference.”

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Edmund Burke

Fonte: A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful

“It is our ignorance of things that causes all our admiration and chiefly excites our passions.”

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Fonte: A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful

“Society is indeed a contract. Subordinate contracts for objects of mere occasional interest may be dissolved at pleasure — but the state ought not to be considered as nothing better than a partnership agreement in a trade of pepper and coffee, calico or tobacco, or some other such low concern, to be taken up for a little temporary interest, and to be dissolved by the fancy of the parties. It is to be looked on with other reverence; because it is not a partnership in things subservient only to the gross animal existence of a temporary and perishable nature. It is a partnership in all science; a partnership in all art; a partnership in every virtue, and in all perfection. As the ends of such a partnership cannot be obtained in many generations, it becomes a partnership not only between those who are living, but between those who are to be born. Each contract of each particular state is but a clause in the great primaeval contract of eternal society, linking the lower with the higher natures, connecting the visible and the invisible world, according to a fixed compact sanctioned by the inviolable oath which holds all physical and all moral natures, each in their appointed place. This law is not subject to the will of those, who by an obligation above them, and infinitely superior, are bound to submit their will to that law. The municipal corporations of that universal kingdom are not morally at liberty at their pleasure, and on their speculations of a contingent improvement, wholly to separate and tear asunder the bands of their subordinate community, and to dissolve it into an unsocial, uncivil, unconnected chaos of elementary principles. It is the first and supreme necessity only, a necessity that is not chosen, but chooses, a necessity paramount to deliberation, that admits no discussion, and demands no evidence, which alone can justify a resort to anarchy. This necessity is no exception to the rule; because this necessity itself is a part too of that moral and physical disposition of things, to which man must be obedient by consent or force: but if that which is only submission to necessity should be made the object of choice, the law is broken, nature is disobeyed, and the rebellious are outlawed, cast forth, and exiled, from this world of reason, and order, and peace, and virtue, and fruitful penitence, into the antagonist world of madness, discord, vice, confusion, and unavailing sorrow.”

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Edmund Burke livro Reflections on the Revolution in France

Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790)

“Tyrants seldom want pretexts.”

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Edmund Burke

Letter to a Member of the National Assembly (1791)
A Letter to a Member of the National Assembly (1791)

“We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature, and the means perhaps of its conservation.”

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Edmund Burke

Letter to Sir Hercules Langrishe (1792)
1790s

“The wisdom of our ancestors.”

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Edmund Burke

Burke is credited by some with the first use of this phrase, in Observations on a Late Publication on Present State of the Nation (1769), p. 516; also in Thoughts on the Cause of the Present Discontents (1770) and Discussion on the Traitorous Correspondence Bill (1793)
1760s

“If the people are happy, united, wealthy, and powerful, we presume the rest. We conclude that to be good from whence good is derived.”

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Edmund Burke livro Reflections on the Revolution in France

Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790)

“The pretended rights of these theorists are all extremes: and in proportion as they are metaphysically true, they are morally and politically false. The rights of men are in a sort of middle, incapable of definition, but not impossible to be discerned. The rights of men in government are their advantages; and these are often in balances between differences of good; in compromises between good and evil, and sometimes between evil and evil. Political reason is a computing principle: adding, subtracting, multiplying, and dividing, morally and not metaphysically or mathematically, true moral denominations.”

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Edmund Burke livro Reflections on the Revolution in France

Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790)

“Public life is a situation of power and energy; he trespasses against his duty who sleeps upon his watch, as well as he that goes over to the enemy.”

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Edmund Burke livro Thoughts on the Cause of the Present Discontents

Thoughts on the Cause of the Present Discontents (1770)

“Whenever our neighbour's house is on fire, it cannot be amiss for the engines to play a little on our own.”

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Edmund Burke livro Reflections on the Revolution in France

Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790)