Edmund Burke Quotes
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Men who undertake considerable things, even in a regular way, ought to give us ground to presume ability.
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Better to be despised for too anxious apprehensions, than ruined by too confident a security.
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Boldness formerly was not the character of Atheists as such. ... But of late they are grown active, designing, turbulent, and seditious.
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So to be patriots as not to forget we are gentlemen.
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The writers against religion, whilst they oppose every system, are wisely careful never to set up any of their own.
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To speak of atrocious crime in mild language is treason to virtue.
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The cold neutrality of an impartial judge.
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Nothing less will content me, than whole America.
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Resolved to die in the last dike of prevarication.
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There was an ancient Roman lawyer, of great fame in the history of Roman jurisprudence, whom they called Cui Bono, from his having first introduced into judicial proceedings the argument, 'What end or object could the party have had in the act with which he is accused.'
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Manners are of more importance than laws. The law can touch us here and there, now and then. Manners are what vex or soothe, corrupt or purify, exalt or debase, barbarize or refine us, by a constant, steady, uniform, insensible operation like that of the air we breathe in.
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Whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither, in my opinion, is safe.
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Good order is the foundation of all things.
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Superstition is the religion of feeble minds.
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A definition may be very exact, and yet go but a very little way towards informing us of the nature of the thing defined.
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Jacobinism is the revolt of the enterprising talents of a country against its property.
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It is the function of a judge not to make but to declare the law, according to the golden mete-wand of the law and not by the crooked cord of discretion.
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And having looked to Government for bread, on the very first scarcity they will turn and bite the hand that fed them.
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All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent.
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It is ordained in the eternal constitution of things, that men of intemperate minds cannot be free. Their passions forge their fetters.
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They made and recorded a sort of institute and digest of anarchy, called the Rights of Man.
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The men of England - the men, I mean of light and leading in England.
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It is the love of the people; it is their attachment to their government, from the sense of the deep stake they have in such a glorious institution, which gives you both your army and your navy, and infuses into both that liberal obedience, without which your army would be a base rabble, and your navy nothing but rotten timber.
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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.