Edmund Burke quotes

People crushed by laws, have no hope but to evade power. If the laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to the law; and those who have most to hope and nothing to lose will always be dangerous.

The arrogance of age must submit to be taught by youth.

Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation.

Justice is itself the great standing policy of civil society; and any eminent departure from it, under any circumstances, lies under the suspicion of being no policy at all.

Beauty is the promise of happiness.

Beauty is the promise of happiness.

Education is the cheap defense of nations.

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

Liberty must be limited in order to be possessed.

Society can overlook murder, adultery or swindling; it never forgives preaching of a new gospel.

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

Superstition is the religion of feeble minds.

Laws, like houses, lean on one another.

The traveller has reached the end of the journey!

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

Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom; and a great empire and little minds go ill together.

You can never plan the future by the past.

When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.

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

Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny.

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

When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.

All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter.

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

Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows, and of lending existence to nothing.

Beauty in distress is much the most affecting beauty.

There is a boundary to men's passions when they act from feelings; but none when they are under the influence of imagination.

But what is liberty without wisdom, and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils; for it is folly, vice, and madness, without tuition or restraint.

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

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

There is but one law for all, namely that law which governs all law, the law of our Creator, the law of humanity, justice, equity - the law of nature and of nations.

Good order is the foundation of all things.

Justice is itself the great standing policy of civil society; and any eminent departure from it, under any circumstances, lies under the suspicion of being no policy at all.

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

Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom; and a great empire and little minds go ill together.

Politics and the pulpit are terms that have little agreement.

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

To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.

Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom; and a great empire and little minds go ill together.

Justice is itself the great standing policy of civil society; and any eminent departure from it, under any circumstances, lies under the suspicion of being no policy at all.

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

Nobility is a graceful ornament to the civil order. It is the Corinthian capital of polished society.

But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded; and the glory of Europe is extinguished forever.

Nothing is so fatal to religion as indifference.

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 one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.

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

People crushed by laws, have no hope but to evade power. If the laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to the law; and those who have most to hope and nothing to lose will always be dangerous.

But what is liberty without wisdom, and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils; for it is folly, vice, and madness, without tuition or restraint.

There is but one law for all, namely that law which governs all law, the law of our Creator, the law of humanity, justice, equity - the law of nature and of nations.

People crushed by laws, have no hope but to evade power. If the laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to the law; and those who have most to hope and nothing to lose will always be dangerous.

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