Edmund Burke Quotes on Life
Edmund Burke was an Irish-born British statesman and political philosopher, often regarded as the founder of modern conservatism. This page collects quotes attributed to Edmund Burke on the topic of life, drawn from across the philosopher's works.
Quotes
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Attributed to Edmund Burke:
“Society is indeed a contract, between those who are living, those who are dead, and those who are to be born.”
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“Custom reconciles us to everything.”
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“We scarce ever had a prince, who by fraud, or violence, had not made some infringement on the constitution. We scarce ever had a parliament which knew, when it attempted to set limits to the royal authority, how to set limits to its own. Evils we have had continually calling for reformation, and reformations more grievous than any evils. Our boasted liberty sometimes trodden down, sometimes giddily set up, and ever precariously fluctuating and unsettled; it has only been kept alive by the blasts of continual feuds, wars, and conspiracies.”
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“The unbought grace of life, the cheap defence of nations, the nurse of manly sentiment and heroic enterprise, is gone!”
Reflections on the Revolution in France(1790) | Volume iii, p. 331