Edmund Burke Quotes
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The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.
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You can never plan the future by the past.
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The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedience, and by parts.
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A spirit of innovation is generally the result of a selfish temper and confined views. People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors.
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Our patience will achieve more than our force.
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Whenever our neighbour's house is on fire, it cannot be amiss for the engines to play a little on our own.
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Vice itself lost half its evil by losing all its grossness.
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Liberty must be limited in order to be possessed.
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Never despair, but if you do, work on in despair.
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Education is the cheap defense of nations.
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The tyranny of a multitude is a multiplied tyranny.
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In a democracy, the majority of the citizens is capable of exercising the most cruel oppressions upon the minority.
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Politics and the pulpit are terms that have little agreement.
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Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other.
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It is a general popular error to suppose the loudest complainers for the public to be the most anxious for its welfare.
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When we speak of the commerce with our American colonies, fiction lags after truth, invention is unfruitful, and imagination cold and barren.
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Ambition can creep as well as soar.
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Religious persecution may shield itself under the guise of a mistaken and over-zealous piety.
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A disposition to preserve, and an ability to improve, taken together, would be my standard of a statesman.
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When the leaders choose to make themselves bidders at an auction of popularity, their talents, in the construction of the state, will be of no service. They will become flatterers instead of legislators; the instruments, not the guides, of the people.
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The effect of liberty to individuals is that they may do what they please: we ought to see what it will please them to do, before we risk congratulations.
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Deny them this participation of freedom, and you break that sole bond, which originally made, and must still preserve the unity of the empire.
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The first and simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind, is curiosity.
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It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact.