Interest Quotes by Edmund Burke

17 Interest quotes by Edmund Burke

Burke’s musings on interest weave together his keen sense of duty and his love of liberty. In these seventeen excerpts you’ll feel his blend of caution and optimism, a voice that still nudges modern debates.

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The marketplace obliges men, whether they will or not, in pursuing their own selfish interests, to connect the general good with their…

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The question is not whether you have a right to render people miserable, but whether it is not in your best interest…

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It is the interest of the commercial world that wealth should be found everywhere.

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The public interest requires doing today those things that men of intelligence and good will would wish, five or ten years hence,…

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Party is a body of men united, for promoting by their joint endeavours the national interest, upon some particular principle in which…

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Man acts from adequate motives relative to his interest, and not on metaphysical speculations.

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To govern according to the sense and agreement of the interests of the people is a great and glorious object of governance.…

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Parliament is a deliberate assembly of one nation, with one interest, that of the whole; where, not local purpose, not local prejudices…

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The superfluities of a rich nation furnish a better object of trade than the necessities of a poor one. It is the…

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As mankind becomes more enlightened to know their real interests, they will esteem the value of agriculture; they will find it in…

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No men can act with effect who do not act in concert; no men can act in concert who do not act…

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Society is indeed a contract. Subordinate contracts for objects of mere occasional interest may be dissolved at pleasure - but the state…

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To be attached to the subdivision, to love the little platoon we belong to in society, is the first principle (the germ…

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It is from this absolute indifference and tranquillity of the mind, that mathematical speculations derive some of the most considerable advantages; because…

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All writers on the science of policy are agreed, and they agree with experience, that all governments must frequently infringe the rules…

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Parliament is not a congress of ambassadors from different and hostile interests; which interests each must maintain, as an agent and advocate,…

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We are in a war of a peculiar nature. It is not with an ordinary community, which is hostile or friendly as…

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“Many of the greatest tyrants on the records of history have begun their reigns in the fairest manner. But the truth is, this unnatural…

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In this choice of inheritance we have given to our frame of polity the image of a relation in blood; binding up the constitution…

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“Wise men will apply their remedies to vices, not to names; to the causes of evil which are permanent, not to the occasional organs…

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“A man full of warm, speculative benevolence may wish his society otherwise constituted than he finds it; but a good patriot, and a true…

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My vigour relents. I pardon something to the spirit of liberty.

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A speculative despair is unpardonable where it our duty to act.

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The great must submit to the dominion of prudence and of virtue, or none will long submit to the dominion of thegreat.

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Those who have been once intoxicated with power, and have derived any kind of emolument from it, even though but for one year, never…

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What is it we all seek for in an election? To answer its real purposes, you must first possess the means of knowing the…

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Society is indeed a contract. It is a partnership in all science; a partnership in all art; a partnership in every virtue, and in…

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You can never plan the future by the past.

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