“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
“Those who don’t know history are destined to repeat it.”
– Edmund Burke
“If you can be well without health, you may be happy without virtue.”
– Edmund Burke
“Beauty is the promise of happiness.”
– Edmund Burke
“Mere parsimony is not economy. Expense, and great expense, may be an essential part in true economy.”
– Edmund Burke
“Passion for fame: A passion which is the instinct of all great souls.”
– Edmund Burke
“Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom and a great empire and little minds go ill together.”
– Edmund Burke
“He had no failings which were not owing to a noble cause to an ardent, generous, perhaps an immoderate passion for fame a passion which is the instinct of all great souls.”
– 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
“We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.”
– Edmund Burke
“Nothing turns out to be so oppressive and unjust as a feeble government.”
– Edmund Burke
“All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter.”
– Edmund Burke
“Toleration is good for all, or it is good for none.”
– 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
“All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent.”
– Edmund Burke
“The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.”
– Edmund Burke
“What ever disunites man from God, also disunites man from man.”
– Edmund Burke
“You can never plan the future by the past.”
– Edmund Burke
“Facts are to the mind what food is to the body.”
– Edmund Burke
“No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.”
– Edmund Burke
“Education is the cheap defense of nations.”
– Edmund Burke
“A State without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation.”
– Edmund Burke
“We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.”
– Edmund Burke
“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.”
– Edmund Burke
“Beauty in distress is much the most affecting beauty.”
– Edmund Burke
“Beauty is the promise of happiness.”
– Edmund Burke
“Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows, and of lending existence to nothing.”
– Edmund Burke
“Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation.”
– Edmund Burke
“The arrogance of age must submit to be taught by youth.”
– Edmund Burke
“But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded and the glory of Europe is extinguished forever.”
– Edmund Burke