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Our patience will achieve more than our force.
— Edmund Burke
Good company, lively conversation, and the endearments of friendship fill the mind with great pleasure.
— Edmund Burke
The writers against religion, whilst they oppose every system, are wisely careful never to set up any of their own.
— Edmund Burke
The nature of things is, I admit, a sturdy adversary.
— Edmund Burke
Pleasure of every kind quickly satisfies.
— Edmund Burke
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.
— Edmund Burke
The essence of tyranny is the enforcement of stupid laws.
— Edmund Burke
Oppression makes wise men mad; but the distemper is still the madness of the wise, which is better than the sobriety of fools.
— Edmund Burke
He that accuses all mankind of corruption ought to remember that he is sure to convict only one.
— Edmund Burke
True religion is the foundation of society. When that is once shaken by contempt, the whole fabric cannot be stable nor lasting.
— Edmund Burke
Nothing is so fatal to religion as indifference.
— Edmund Burke
This sort of people are so taken up with their theories about the rights of man that they have totally forgotten his nature.
— Edmund Burke
Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny.
— Edmund Burke
All wealth is power, so power must infallibly draw wealth to itself by some means or other.
— 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
All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent.
— Edmund Burke
We set ourselves to bite the hand that feeds us
— Edmund Burke
We begin our public affection in our families. No cold relation is a zealous citizen.
— Edmund Burke
Turn over a new leaf.
— Edmund Burke
Never despair, but if you do, work on in despair.
— Edmund Burke
The great must submit to the dominion of prudence and of virtue, or none will long submit to the dominion of the great.
— Edmund Burke
I would rather sleep in the southern corner of a little country churchyard than in the tomb of the Capulets.
— Edmund Burke
People will not look forward to posterity who never look backward to their ancestors.
— Edmund Burke
The grand instructor, time.
— Edmund Burke
In the groves of their academy, at the end of every vista, you see nothing but the gallows.
— Edmund Burke
Water is insipid, inodorous, colorless and smooth.
— Edmund Burke
Religion, by 'consecrating' the state, gives the people an added impetus to respect and regard their regime.
— Edmund Burke
Nothing less will content me, than wholeAmerica.
— Edmund Burke
Spain: A whale stranded upon the coast of Europe.
— Edmund Burke
The cause of a wrong taste is a defect of judgment.
— Edmund Burke
The march of the human mind is slow.
— Edmund Burke
Between craft and credulity, the voice of reason is stifled.
— Edmund Burke
Wars are just to those to whom they are necessary.
— Edmund Burke
An entire life of solitude contradicts the purpose of our being, since death itself is scarcely an idea of more terror.
— Edmund Burke
Man is by his constitution a religious animal.
— Edmund Burke
If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free. If our wealth commands us, we are poor indeed.
— Edmund Burke
Great men are the guideposts and landmarks in the state.
— Edmund Burke
Those who don't know history are doomed to repeat it.
— Edmund Burke
Religion is the basis of civil society, and the source of all good and of all comfort.
— 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
Where mystery begins religion ends.
— Edmund Burke
Rudeness is the weak man's imitation of strength.
— Edmund Burke
One source of the sublime is infinity.
— Edmund Burke
All men have equal rights, but not to equal things.
— Edmund Burke
Liberty must be limited in order to be possessed.
— Edmund Burke
Teach me, O lark! with thee to greatly rise, to exalt my soul and lift it to the skies.
— Edmund Burke
Better to be despised for too anxious apprehensions, than ruined by too confident a security.
— Edmund Burke
All human laws are, properly speaking, only declaratory; they have no power over the substance of original justice.
— Edmund Burke
Whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither, in my opinion, is safe.
— Edmund Burke
Men are qualified for civil liberty in exact proportion to their disposition to put moral chains upon their appetites.
— Edmund Burke
The Fate of good men who refuse to become involved in politics is to be ruled by evil men.
— Edmund Burke
Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver, and adulation is not of more service to the people than to kings.
— Edmund Burke
Mere parsimony is not economy. Expense, and great expense, may be an essential part in true economy.
— Edmund Burke
A conscientious man would be cautious how he dealt in blood.
— Edmund Burke
Fellowship in treason is a bad ground of confidence.
— Edmund Burke
Rage and frenzy will pull down more in half an hour than prudence, deliberation, and foresight can build up in a hundred years.
— Edmund Burke
Those who don't know history are destined to repeat it.
— Edmund Burke
All government is founded on compromise and banter.
— Edmund Burke
Reading without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
— Edmund Burke
Nothing in progression can rest on its original plan. We may as well think of rocking a grown man in the cradle of an infant.
— Edmund Burke
He only deserves to be remembered by posterity who treasures up and preserves the history of his ancestors.
— Edmund Burke
The love of lucre, though sometimes carried to a ridiculous excess, a vicious excess, is the grand cause of prosperity to all States.
— Edmund Burke
Nothing so effectually deadens the taste of the sublime as that which is light and radiant.
— Edmund Burke
A thing may look specious in theory, and yet be ruinous in practice; a thing may look evil in theory, and yet be in practice excellent.
— Edmund Burke
That cardinal virtue, temperance.
— 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
