Quotes

“Slavery is a weed that grows on every soil.” Edmund Burke

“The most important of all revolutions, a revolution in sentiments, manners and moral opinions.” Edmund Burke

“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.” Edmund Burke

“A disposition to preserve, and an ability to improve, taken together, would be my standard of a statesman.” Edmund Burke

“Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows, and of lending existence to nothing.” Edmund Burke

“The arrogance of age must submit to be taught by youth.” Edmund Burke

“A spirit of innovation is generally the result of a selfish temper and confined views. People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors.” Edmund Burke

“When the leaders choose to make themselves bidders at an auction of popularity, their talents, in the construction of the state, will be of no service. They will become flatterers instead of legislators; the instruments, not the guides, of the people.” Edmund Burke

“A State without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation.” Edmund Burke

“All human laws are, properly speaking, only declaratory; they have no power over the substance of original justice.” Edmund Burke

“Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones.” Edmund Burke

“Liberty must be limited in order to be possessed.” Edmund Burke

“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