Edmund Burke Quotes
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The cold neutrality of an impartial judge.
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I am convinced that we have a degree of delight, and that no small one, in the real misfortunes and pains of others.
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Applaud us when we run, console us when we fall, cheer us when we recover.
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Early and provident fear is the mother of safety.
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Whilst shame keeps its watch, virtue is not wholly extinguished in the heart; nor will moderation be utterly exiled from the minds of tyrants.
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Nothing less will content me, than whole America.
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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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Writers, especially when they act in a body and with one direction, have great influence on the public mind.
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They talk as if England were not in Europe.
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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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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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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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Mere parsimony is not economy. Expense, and great expense, may be an essential part in true economy.
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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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I have in general no very exalted opinion of the virtue of paper government.
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The wisdom of our ancestors.
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There never was a bad man that had ability for good service.
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By adverting to the dignity of this high calling our ancestors have turned a savage wilderness into a glorious empire: and have made the most extensive, and the only honorable conquests, not by destroying, but by promoting the wealth, the number, the happiness of the human race.
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Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants. Men have a right that these wants should be provided for by this wisdom.
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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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I take toleration to be a part of religion. I do not know which I would sacrifice; I would keep them both: it is not necessary that I should sacrifice either.
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I would rather sleep in the southern corner of a little country churchyard, than in the tombs of the Capulets.
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I cannot conceive how any man can have brought himself to that pitch of presumption, to consider his country as nothing but carte blanche, upon which he may scribble whatever he pleases.
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You had that action and counteraction which, in the natural and in the political world, from the reciprocal struggle of discordant powers draws out the harmony of the universe.