Edmund Burke's Quotes

Edmund Burke's Quotes 108

Nobility is a graceful ornament to the civil order. It is the Corinthian...

Society can overlook murder, adultery or swindling; it never forgives...

Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is...

The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.

Our patience will achieve more than our force.

Never despair, but if you do, work on in despair.

If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free; if our wealth commands...

It is ordained in the eternal constitution of things, that men of intemperate...

To tax and to please, no more than to love and to be wise, is not given to men.

Under the pressure of the cares and sorrows of our mortal condition, men have...

The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.

Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny.

There is but one law for all, namely that law which governs all law, the law...

It is not what a lawyer tells me I may do; but what humanity, reason, and...

There is a boundary to men's passions when they act from feelings; but none...

People crushed by laws, have no hope but to evade power. If the laws are...

If you can be well without health, you may be happy without virtue.

It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact.

When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall one by...

All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to...

What ever disunites man from God, also disunites man from man.

You can never plan the future by the past.

Liberty must be limited in order to be possessed.

But what is liberty without wisdom, and without virtue? It is the greatest of...

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