Edmund Burke: Frases em inglês

Frases em inglês.

Edmund Burke: 339 citações211 Curtidas

“The objects of a financier are, then, to secure an ample revenue; to impose it with judgment and equality; to employ it economically; and, when necessity obliges him to make use of credit, to secure its foundations in that instance, and for ever, by the clearness and candour of his proceedings, the exactness of his calculations, and the solidity of his funds.”

Help us translate this quote

Edmund Burke livro Reflections on the Revolution in France

Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790)

“Falsehood and delusion are allowed in no case whatever: But, as in the exercise of all the virtues, there is an œconomy of truth. It is a sort of temperance, by which a man speaks truth with measure that he may speak it the longer.”

Help us translate this quote

Letters On a Regicide Peace (1796)

“People crushed by law, have no hopes but from power. If laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to laws; and those who have much to hope and nothing to lose, will always be dangerous.”

Help us translate this quote

Letter to Charles James Fox (8 October 1777)
1770s

“The power of perpetuating our property in our families is one of the most valuable and interesting circumstances belonging to it, and that which tends most to the perpetuation of society itself. It makes our weakness subservient to our virtue; it grafts benevolence even upon avarice. The possession of family wealth and of the distinction which attends hereditary possessions (as most concerned in it,) are the natural securities for this transmission.”

Help us translate this quote

Edmund Burke livro Reflections on the Revolution in France

Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790)

“Neither the few nor the many have a right to act merely by their will, in any matter connected with duty, trust, engagement, or obligation.”

Help us translate this quote

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

Fonte: An Appeal from the New to the Old Whigs (1791), p. 440

“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.”

Help us translate this quote

Edmund Burke livro Reflections on the Revolution in France

Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790)

“France has always more or less influenced manners in England; and when your fountain is choked up and polluted, the stream will not run long, or not run clear, with us, or perhaps with any nation. This gives all Europe, in my opinion, but too close and connected a concern in what is done in France. Excuse me, therefore, if I have dwelt too long on the atrocious spectacle of the 6th of October, 1789, or have given too much scope to the reflections which have arisen in my mind on occasion of the most important of all revolutions, which may be dated from that day, I mean a revolution in sentiments, manners, and moral opinions.”

Help us translate this quote

Edmund Burke livro Reflections on the Revolution in France

Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790)

“In effect, to follow, not to force the public inclination; to give a direction, a form, a technical dress, and a specific sanction, to the general sense of the community, is the true end of legislature.”

Help us translate this quote

Letter to the Sheriffs of Bristol (1777)

“Freedom and not servitude is the cure of anarchy; as religion, and not atheism, is the true remedy for superstition.”

Help us translate this quote

Second Speech on Conciliation with America (1775)

“Parliament is not a congress of ambassadors from different and hostile interests; which interests each must maintain, as an agent and advocate, against other agents and advocates; but parliament is a deliberative assembly of one nation, with one interest, that of the whole; where, not local purposes, not local prejudices ought to guide, but the general good, resulting from the general reason of the whole. You choose a member indeed; but when you have chosen him, he is not a member of Bristol, but he is a member of parliament.”

Help us translate this quote

Speech to the Electors of Bristol (3 November 1774); as published in The Works of the Right Hon. Edmund Burke (1834)
1770s

“Old religious factions are volcanoes burnt out.”

Help us translate this quote

Speech on the Petition of the Unitarians (11 May 1792)
1790s

“So to be patriots as not to forget we are gentlemen.”

Help us translate this quote

Edmund Burke livro Thoughts on the Cause of the Present Discontents

Thoughts on the Cause of the Present Discontents (1770)

“There is a sort of enthusiasm in all projectors, absolutely necessary for their affairs, which makes them proof against the most fatiguing delays, the most mortifying disappointments, the most shocking insults; and, what is severer than all, the presumptuous judgement of the ignorant upon their designs.”

Help us translate this quote

An account of the European Settlements in America (1757), pp. 19-20, in The Works of Edmund Burke in Nine Volumes, Vol. IX. Boston: Little, Brown (1839)
1750s

“Superstition is the religion of feeble minds.”

Help us translate this quote

Edmund Burke livro Reflections on the Revolution in France

Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790)

“The unbought grace of life, the cheap defence of nations, the nurse of manly sentiment and heroic enterprise, is gone!”

Help us translate this quote

Edmund Burke livro Reflections on the Revolution in France

Volume iii, p. 331
Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790)

“In their nomination to office they will not appoint to the exercise of authority as to a pitiful job, but as to a holy function.”

Help us translate this quote

Edmund Burke livro Reflections on the Revolution in France

Volume iii, p. 356
Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790)

“Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver.”

Help us translate this quote

Edmund Burke livro Reflections on the Revolution in France

Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790)

“I cannot conceive how any man can have brought himself to that pitch of presumption, to consider his country as nothing but carte blanche, upon which he may scribble whatever he pleases.”

Help us translate this quote

Edmund Burke livro Reflections on the Revolution in France

Volume iii, p. 231
Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790)

“Mere parsimony is not economy. Expense, and great expense, may be an essential part in true economy.”

Help us translate this quote

Edmund Burke A Letter to a Noble Lord

A Letter to a Noble Lord (1796)

“And having looked to Government for bread, on the very first scarcity they will turn and bite the hand that fed them.”

Help us translate this quote

Thoughts and Details on Scarcity (1795)
Thoughts and Details on Scarcity (1795)