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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Liberty must be limited in order to be possessed.
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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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The tyranny of a multitude is a multiplied tyranny.
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Education is the cheap defense of nations.
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Politics and the pulpit are terms that have little agreement.
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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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Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other.
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Religious persecution may shield itself under the guise of a mistaken and over-zealous piety.
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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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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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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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Ambition can creep as well as soar.
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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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The first and simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind, is curiosity.
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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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It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact.
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If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free; if our wealth commands us, we are poor indeed.