Edmund Burke quotes

“No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.”

— Edmund Burke

“People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors.”

— Edmund Burke

“Religious persecution may shield itself under the guise of a mistaken and over-zealous piety.”

— Edmund Burke

“The tyranny of a multitude is a multiplied tyranny.”

— Edmund Burke

“Ambition can creep as well as soar.”

— Edmund Burke

“Beauty in distress is much the most affecting beauty.”

— Edmund Burke

“Custom reconciles us to everything.”

— Edmund Burke

“Falsehood is a perennial spring.”

— Edmund Burke

“Free trade is not based on utility but on justice.”

— Edmund Burke

“Frugality is founded on the principal that all riches have limits.”

— Edmund Burke

“Good order is the foundation of all things.”

— Edmund Burke

“I venture to say no war can be long carried on against the will of the people.”

— Edmund Burke

“If the people are happy, united, wealthy, and powerful, we presume the rest. We conclude that to be good from whence good is derived.”

— Edmund Burke

“It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact.”

— Edmund Burke

“It is, generally, in the season of prosperity that men discover their real temper, principles, and designs.”

— Edmund Burke

“Laws, like houses, lean on one another.”

— Edmund Burke

“Mere parsimony is not economy. Expense, and great expense, may be an essential part in true economy.”

— 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

“Passion for fame: A passion which is the instinct of all great souls.”

— Edmund Burke

“Politics and the pulpit are terms that have little agreement.”

— Edmund Burke

“Superstition is the religion of feeble minds.”

— Edmund Burke

“The march of the human mind is slow.”

— Edmund Burke

“The traveller has reached the end of the journey!”

— Edmund Burke

“To innovate is not to reform.”

— Edmund Burke

“To tax and to please, no more than to love and to be wise, is not given to men.”

— Edmund Burke

“Tyrants seldom want pretexts.”

— Edmund Burke

“Whenever our neighbour's house is on fire, it cannot be amiss for the engines to play a little on our own.”

— Edmund Burke

“Whilst shame keeps its watch, virtue is not wholly extinguished in the heart; nor will moderation be utterly exiled from the minds of tyrants.”

— 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