Edmund Burke Quotes And Sayings

The Traveller Has Reached The End Of The Journey!

Bad Laws Are The Worst Sort Of Tyranny.

Among A People Generally Corrupt Liberty Cannot Long Exist.

No Passion So Effectually Robs The Mind Of All Its Powers Of Acting And Reasoning As Fear.

Passion For Fame: A Passion Which Is The Instinct Of All Great Souls.

The Greater The Power, The More Dangerous The Abuse.

It Is The Nature Of All Greatness Not To Be Exact.

Laws, Like Houses, Lean On One Another.

If The People Are Happy, United, Wealthy, And Powerful, We Presume The Rest. We Conclude That To Be Good From Whence Good Is Derived.

All Government, Indeed Every Human Benefit And Enjoyment, Every Virtue, And Every Prudent Act, Is Founded On Compromise And Barter.

I Venture To Say No War Can Be Long Carried On Against The Will Of The People.

Whilst Shame Keeps Its Watch, Virtue Is Not Wholly Extinguished In The Heart; Nor Will Moderation Be Utterly Exiled From The Minds Of Tyrants.

Free Trade Is Not Based On Utility But On Justice.

It Is The Interest Of The Commercial World That Wealth Should Be Found Everywhere.

Poetry Is The Art Of Substantiating Shadows, And Of Lending Existence To Nothing.

Flattery Corrupts Both The Receiver And The Giver.

Whenever A Separation Is Made Between Liberty And Justice, Neither, In My Opinion, Is Safe.

Nothing Is So Fatal To Religion As Indifference.

The People Never Give Up Their Liberties But Under Some Delusion.

Politics And The Pulpit Are Terms That Have Little Agreement.

Toleration Is Good For All, Or It Is Good For None.

Liberty Must Be Limited In Order To Be Possessed.

The True Danger Is When Liberty Is Nibbled Away, For Expedience, And By Parts.

To Tax And To Please, No More Than To Love And To Be Wise, Is Not Given To Men.

Kings Will Be Tyrants From Policy, When Subjects Are Rebels From Principle.

Religious Persecution May Shield Itself Under The Guise Of A Mistaken And Over-zealous Piety.

To Read Without Reflecting Is Like Eating Without Digesting.

To Innovate Is Not To Reform.

By Gnawing Through A Dike, Even A Rat May Drown A Nation.

All Human Laws Are, Properly Speaking, Only Declaratory; They Have No Power Over The Substance Of Original Justice.

There Is A Boundary To Men's Passions When They Act From Feelings; But None When They Are Under The Influence Of Imagination.

Example Is The School Of Mankind, And They Will Learn At No Other.

Applause Is The Spur Of Noble Minds, The End And Aim Of Weak Ones.

In Effect, To Follow, Not To Force The Public Inclination; To Give A Direction, A Form, A Technical Dress, And A Specific Sanction, To The General Sense Of The Community, Is The True End Of Legislature.

A Disposition To Preserve, And An Ability To Improve, Taken Together, Would Be My Standard Of A Statesman.

I Have Never Yet Seen Any Plan Which Has Not Been Mended By The Observations Of Those Who Were Much Inferior In Understanding To The Person Who Took The Lead In The Business.

If You Can Be Well Without Health, You May Be Happy Without Virtue.

Custom Reconciles Us To Everything.

People Will Not Look Forward To Posterity, Who Never Look Backward To Their Ancestors.

Nobility Is A Graceful Ornament To The Civil Order. It Is The Corinthian Capital Of Polished Society.

Falsehood Is A Perennial Spring.

The Tyranny Of A Multitude Is A Multiplied Tyranny.

It Is, Generally, In The Season Of Prosperity That Men Discover Their Real Temper, Principles, And Designs.

Tyrants Seldom Want Pretexts.

He Had No Failings Which Were Not Owing To A Noble Cause; To An Ardent, Generous, Perhaps An Immoderate Passion For Fame; A Passion Which Is The Instinct Of All Great Souls.

The March Of The Human Mind Is Slow.

Education Is The Cheap Defense Of Nations.