Edmund Burke's Quotes

Edmund Burke's Quotes 108

Facts are to the mind what food is to the body.

No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and...

Passion for fame: A passion which is the instinct of all great souls.

Education is the cheap defense of nations.

To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.

A State without the means of some change is without the means of its...

We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.

I have never yet seen any plan which has not been mended by the observations...

Good order is the foundation of all things.

Beauty in distress is much the most affecting beauty.

Beauty is the promise of happiness.

Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows, and of lending existence to...

Justice is itself the great standing policy of civil society; and any eminent...

Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is...

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

Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do...

Never despair but if you do work on in despair.

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

The person who grieves suffers his passion to grow upon him he indulges it...

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

Superstition is the religion of feeble minds.

Nothing is so fatal to religion as indifference.

All human laws are properly speaking only declaratory they have no power...

The greater the power the more dangerous the abuse.

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