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Edmund Burke
Quotes by Edmund Burke
Quotes by Edmund Burke
“The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.”
Edmund Burke
“It is a general popular error to suppose the loudest complainers for the public to be the most anxious for its welfare.”
Edmund Burke
“You can never plan the future by the past.”
Edmund Burke
“Those who don't know history are destined to repeat it.”
Edmund Burke
“Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.”
Edmund Burke
“All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent.”
Edmund Burke
“Your representative owes you, not his industry only, but his judgment; and he betrays instead of serving you if he sacrifices it to your opinion.”
Edmund Burke
“Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny.”
Edmund Burke
“Our patience will achieve more than our force.”
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
“Hypocrisy can afford to be magnificent in its promises, for never intending to go beyond promise, it costs nothing.”
Edmund Burke
“Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle which fits them all.”
Edmund Burke
“But what is liberty without wisdom, and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils; for it is folly, vice, and madness, without tuition or restraint.”
Edmund Burke
“It is not what a lawyer tells me I may do; but what humanity, reason, and justice tell me I ought to do.”
Edmund Burke
“By gnawing through a dike, even a rat may drown a nation.”
Edmund Burke
“Among a people generally corrupt liberty cannot long exist.”
Edmund Burke
“All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter.”
Edmund Burke
“The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion.”
Edmund Burke
“In a democracy, the majority of the citizens is capable of exercising the most cruel oppressions upon the minority.”
Edmund Burke
“To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.”
Edmund Burke
“Whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither, in my opinion, is safe.”
Edmund Burke
“Beauty is the promise of happiness.”
Edmund Burke
“He that struggles with us strengthens our nerves, and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper.”
Edmund Burke
“Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation.”
Edmund Burke
“The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.”
Edmund Burke
“Education is the cheap defense of nations.”
Edmund Burke
“We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.”
Edmund Burke
“What ever disunites man from God, also disunites man from man.”
Edmund Burke
“Never despair, but if you do, work on in despair.”
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
