Quotes by Edmund Burke
One that confounds good and evil is an enemy to good.
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.
The march of the human mind is slow.
The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion.
Whenever our neighbour's house is on fire, it cannot be amiss for the engines to play a little on our own.
Nothing turns out to be so oppressive and unjust as a feeble government.
Frugality is founded on the principal that all riches have limits.
To tax and to please, no more than to love and to be wise, is not given to men.
Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle which fits them all.
If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free; if our wealth commands us, we are poor indeed.
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.
It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact.
Passion for fame: A passion which is the instinct of all great souls.
To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
Education is the cheap defense of nations.
Never despair, but if you do, work on in despair.
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.
I venture to say no war can be long carried on against the will of the people.
Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny.
