Edmund Burke Quotes
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Resolved to die in the last dike of prevarication.
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There is, however, a limit at which forbearance ceases to be a virtue.
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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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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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Falsehood and delusion are allowed in no case whatever: But, as in the exercise of all the virtues, there is an œconomy of truth. It is a sort of temperance, by which a man speaks truth with measure that he may speak it the longer.
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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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The writers against religion, whilst they oppose every system, are wisely careful never to set up any of their own.
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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.
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Whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither, in my opinion, is safe.
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It is, generally, in the season of prosperity that men discover their real temper, principles, and designs.
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Mere parsimony is not economy. Expense, and great expense, may be an essential part in true economy.
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Young man, there is America - which at this day serves for little more than to amuse you with stories of savage men and uncouth manners; yet shall, before you taste of death, show itself equal to the whole of that commerce which now attracts the envy of the world.
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So far as it has gone, it probably is the most pure and defecated publick good which ever has been conferred on mankind.
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Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.
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Taxing is an easy business. Any projector can contrive new impositions, any bungler can add to the old.
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In their nomination to office they will not appoint to the exercise of authority as to a pitiful job, but as to a holy function.
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If any ask me what a free Government is, I answer, that, for any practical purpose, it is what the people think so, - and that they, and not I, are the natural, lawful, and competent judges of this matter.
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Early and provident fear is the mother of safety.
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To speak of atrocious crime in mild language is treason to virtue.
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The concessions of the weak are the concessions of fear.
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The individual is foolish; the multitude, for the moment is foolish, when they act without deliberation; but the species is wise, and, when time is given to it, as a species it always acts right.
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Of this stamp is the cant of, Not men, but measures.
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Old religious factions are volcanoes burnt out.