Edmund Burke Quotes About Purpose

• Si alguien me pregunta qué es un gobierno libre, respondo que, para cualquier propósito práctico, es lo que el pueblo piensa que es, y que ellos, y no yo, son los jueces naturales, legítimos y competentes en esta materia.

  Edmund Burke

  Pensar, Gobierno, Juzgar

  Edmund Burke (1852). "The Works and Correspondence of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke", p. 321.

• No government ought to exist for the purpose of checking the prosperity of its people or to allow such a principle in its policy.

  Edmund Burke

  Government, People, Principles

• Parliament is a deliberate assembly of one nation, with one interest, that of the whole; where, not local purpose, not local prejudices ought to guide but the general good, resulting from the general reason of the whole.

  Edmund Burke

  Prejudice, Purpose, Reason

  Edmund Burke (1963). “Edmund Burke: Selected Writings and Speeches”, p.224, Transaction Publishers

• What is it we all seek for in an election? To answer its real purposes, you must first possess the means of knowing the fitness of your man; and then you must retain some hold upon him by personal obligation or dependence.

  Edmund Burke

  Reales, Malos, Hombres

  Edmund Burke (1912). “Reflections on the French Revolution”, p.192, CUP Archive

• 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.

  Edmund Burke

  Agents, Ambassadors, Politics

  Edmund Burke (1999). “The Portable Edmund Burke”, p.172, Penguin

• El nervio que nunca se relaja, el ojo que nunca palidece, el pensamiento que nunca divaga, el propósito que nunca vacila: éstos son los maestros de la victoria.

  Edmund Burke

  Perseverance, Eye, Victory

• An entire life of solitude contradicts the purpose of our being, since death itself is scarcely an idea of more terror.

  Edmund Burke

  Ideas, Solitude, Purpose

  Edmund Burke (2012). “A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful”, p.28, Courier Corporation

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