Edmund Burke Quotes
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The unbought grace of life, the cheap defence of nations, the nurse of manly sentiment and heroic enterprise, is gone!
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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.
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He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper.
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Toleration is good for all, or it is good for none.
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Under the pressure of the cares and sorrows of our mortal condition, men have at all times, and in all countries, called in some physical aid to their moral consolations - wine, beer, opium, brandy, or tobacco.
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Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom; and a great empire and little minds go ill together.
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All human laws are, properly speaking, only declaratory; they have no power over the substance of original justice.
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One that confounds good and evil is an enemy to good.
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Facts are to the mind what food is to the body.
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No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.
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The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
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Neither the few nor the many have a right to act merely by their will, in any matter connected with duty, trust, engagement, or obligation.
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Nobility is a graceful ornament to the civil order. It is the Corinthian capital of polished society.
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There is a boundary to men's passions when they act from feelings; but none when they are under the influence of imagination.
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Laws, like houses, lean on one another.
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There is nothing that God has judged good for us that He has not given us the means to accomplish, both in the natural and the moral world.
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To tax and to please, no more than to love and to be wise, is not given to men.
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To make us love our country, our country ought to be lovely.
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The use of force alone is but temporary. It may subdue for a moment; but it does not remove the necessity of subduing again: and a nation is not governed, which is perpetually to be conquered.
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The traveller has reached the end of the journey!
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An event has happened, upon which it is difficult to speak, and impossible to be silent.
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Better to be despised for too anxious apprehensions, than ruined by too confident a security.
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People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors.
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He was not merely a chip of the old Block, but the old Block itself.