“Never despair, but if you do, work on in despair.”
– Edmund Burke
“Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom and a great empire and little minds go ill together.”
– Edmund Burke
“But what is liberty without wisdom, and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils for it is folly, vice, and madness, without tuition or restraint.”
– Edmund Burke
“I venture to say no war can be long carried on against the will of the people.”
– Edmund Burke
“The person who grieves suffers his passion to grow upon him he indulges it, he loves it but this never happens in the case of actual pain, which no man ever willingly endured for any considerable time.”
– Edmund Burke
“You can never plan the future by the past.”
– Edmund Burke
“Justice is itself the great standing policy of civil society and any eminent departure from it, under any circumstances, lies under the suspicion of being no policy at all.”
– Edmund Burke
“Society can overlook murder, adultery or swindling it never forgives preaching of a new gospel.”
– Edmund Burke
“Nobility is a graceful ornament to the civil order. It is the Corinthian capital of polished society.”
– Edmund Burke
“Nothing is so fatal to religion as indifference.”
– Edmund Burke
“Superstition is the religion of feeble minds.”
– Edmund Burke
“Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation.”
– Edmund Burke
“All human laws are, properly speaking, only declaratory they have no power over the substance of original justice.”
– Edmund Burke
“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.”
– Edmund Burke
“The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.”
– Edmund Burke
“Politics and the pulpit are terms that have little agreement.”
– Edmund Burke
“Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom and a great empire and little minds go ill together.”
– Edmund Burke
“When bad men combine, the good must associate else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.”
– Edmund Burke
“Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows, and of lending existence to nothing.”
– Edmund Burke
“Our patience will achieve more than our force.”
– Edmund Burke
“It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact.”
– Edmund Burke
“We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.”
– Edmund Burke
“There is but one law for all, namely that law which governs all law, the law of our Creator, the law of humanity, justice, equity – the law of nature and of nations.”
– Edmund Burke
“To tax and to please, no more than to love and to be wise, is not given to men.”
– Edmund Burke
“It is, generally, in the season of prosperity that men discover their real temper, principles, and designs.”
– Edmund Burke
“There is a boundary to men’s passions when they act from feelings but none when they are under the influence of imagination.”
– Edmund Burke
“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.”
– Edmund Burke
“When bad men combine, the good must associate else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.”
– Edmund Burke
“The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.”
– Edmund Burke
“There is a boundary to men’s passions when they act from feelings but none when they are under the influence of imagination.”
– Edmund Burke