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“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
“If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free; if our wealth commands us, we are poor indeed.”
Edmund Burke
“Toleration is good for all, or it is good for none.”
Edmund Burke
“The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedience, and by parts.”
Edmund Burke
“People crushed by laws, have no hope but to evade power. If the laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to the law; and those who have most to hope and nothing to lose will always be dangerous.”
Edmund Burke
“Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom; and a great empire and little minds go ill together.”
Edmund Burke
“Nothing turns out to be so oppressive and unjust as a feeble government.”
Edmund Burke
“Society can overlook murder, adultery or swindling; it never forgives preaching of a new gospel.”
Edmund Burke
“But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded; and the glory of Europe is extinguished forever.”
Edmund Burke
“He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper.”
Edmund Burke
“Facts are to the mind what food is to the body.”
Edmund Burke
“Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver.”
Edmund Burke
“Kings will be tyrants from policy, when subjects are rebels from principle.”
Edmund Burke
“One that confounds good and evil is an enemy to good.”
Edmund Burke
“The first and simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind, is curiosity.”
Edmund Burke
“To make us love our country, our country ought to be lovely.”
Edmund Burke
“Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other.”
Edmund Burke
“It is the interest of the commercial world that wealth should be found everywhere.”
Edmund Burke
“If you can be well without health, you may be happy without virtue.”
Edmund Burke
