Edmund Burke Quotes - 9quotes.com

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Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.
Written by Edmund Burke
When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.
Written by 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.
Written by Edmund Burke
Whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither, in my opinion, is safe.
Written by Edmund Burke
Our patience will achieve more than our force.
Written by Edmund Burke
Nothing is so fatal to religion as indifference.
Written by Edmund Burke
He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper.
Written by Edmund Burke
To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
Written by Edmund Burke
Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny.
Written by Edmund Burke
The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion.
Written by Edmund Burke
Among a people generally corrupt liberty cannot long exist.
Written by Edmund Burke
The traveller has reached the end of the journey!
Written by 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.
Written by Edmund Burke
Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation.
Written by Edmund Burke
Society can overlook murder, adultery or swindling; it never forgives preaching of a new gospel.
Written by Edmund Burke
Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones.
Written by Edmund Burke
Beauty is the promise of happiness.
Written by Edmund Burke
A State without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation.
Written by Edmund Burke
Falsehood is a perennial spring.
Written by Edmund Burke
Good order is the foundation of all things.
Written by Edmund Burke
Never despair, but if you do, work on in despair.
Written by Edmund Burke
Toleration is good for all, or it is good for none.
Written by Edmund Burke
It is a general popular error to suppose the loudest complainers for the public to be the most anxious for its welfare.
Written by Edmund Burke
Politics and the pulpit are terms that have little agreement.
Written by Edmund Burke
Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other.
Written by Edmund Burke
If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free; if our wealth commands us, we are poor indeed.
Written by Edmund Burke
All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent.
Written by 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.
Written by Edmund Burke
No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.
Written by Edmund Burke
Frugality is founded on the principal that all riches have limits.
Written by Edmund Burke

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