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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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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In a democracy, the majority of the citizens is capable of exercising the most cruel oppressions upon the minority.
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Freedom and not servitude is the cure of anarchy; as religion, and not atheism, is the true remedy for superstition.
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Our patience will achieve more than our force.
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Hypocrisy can afford to be magnificent in its promises, for never intending to go beyond promise, it costs nothing.
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Liberty must be limited in order to be possessed.
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Education is the cheap defense of nations.
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Vice itself lost half its evil by losing all its grossness.
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Never despair, but if you do, work on in despair.
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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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The tyranny of a multitude is a multiplied tyranny.
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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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It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact.
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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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All protestantism, even the most cold and passive, is a sort of dissent. But the religion most prevalent in our northern colonies is a refinement on the principles of resistance: it is the dissidence of dissent, and the protestantism of the Protestant religion.
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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.
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Religious persecution may shield itself under the guise of a mistaken and over-zealous piety.