Edmund Burke Quotes
No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.
Edmund Burke, 1729-1797, Irish Orator & Member of the British Parliament, A Philosophical Inquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful, 1756
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The President later addressed this in his "We have nothing to fear but fear itself" speech – See {636844}.
See Franklin Delano Roosevelt {636844} and Henry David Thoreau {35833} for similar later statements.
See Thoreau {623573} and FDR {636844} for similar sentiments.
Edmund Burke was an Irish statesman, economist, and philosopher. Born in Dublin, Burke served as a member of parliament (MP) between 1766 and 1794 in the House of Commons of Great Britain with the Whig Party after moving to London in 1750.
