Edmund Burke Quotes


You can never plan the future by the past. Edmund Burke Time 721
To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting. Edmund Burke Reading 697
Education is the chief defense of nations. Edmund Burke Education 626
All it takes for evil to succeed is for a few good men to do nothing... Edmund Burke Society 545
Superstition is the religion of feeble minds. Edmund Burke Religion 198
There is a limit at which forbearance ceases to be a virtue. Edmund Burke Tolerance 188
Nothing in progression can rest on its original plan. We might as well think of rocking a grown man in the cradle of an infant. Edmund Burke Progress 152
When bad men combine, the good must associate, else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle. Edmund Burke Evil 149
To tax and to please, no more than to love and be wise, is not given to men. Edmund Burke Absurdity 148
The arrogance of age must submit to be taught by youth. Edmund Burke age 140
Laws, like houses, lean on one another. Edmund Burke Law 139
The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse. Edmund Burke Power 135
Better be despised for too anxious apprehensions, than ruined by too confident security. Edmund Burke Worry 133
Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny. Edmund Burke Laws 128
Education is the cheap defense of nations. Edmund Burke education 125
Bad laws are the worst form of tyranny. Edmund Burke Law 120
All that's necessary for the forces of evil to win in the world is for enough good men to do nothing. Edmund Burke Men 120
Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom; and a great empire and little minds go ill together. Edmund Burke Politics 120
There is but one law for all; namely the law which governs all law-the law of our Creator, the law of humanity, justice, equity; the law of nature and of nations. Edmund Burke Laws 120
Beauty is the promise of happiness. Edmund Burke Beauty 116
They defend their errors as if they were defending their inheritance. Edmund Burke Stubbornness 114
In the groves of their academy, at the end of every vista, you see nothing but the gallows. Edmund Burke Prejudice 109
Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver. Edmund Burke Flattery 109
People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors. Edmund Burke Ancestors 103
To make us love our country, our country ought to be lovely. Edmund Burke Patriotism 103
Never despair, but if you do, work on in despair. Edmund Burke Work 101
Those who don't know history are destined to repeat it. Edmund Burke History 97
A state without some means of change is without the means of its conservation. Edmund Burke Nation 96
Frugality is founded on the principle that all riches have limits. Edmund Burke Money 96
I know of nothing sublime which is not some modification of power. Edmund Burke Power 95
We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature. Edmund Burke change 93
Taxing is an easy business. Any projector can contrive new impositions; any bungler can add to the old; but is it altogether wise to have no other bounds to your impositions than the patience of those who are to bear them? Edmund Burke Taxes 92
Nobility is a graceful ornament to the civil order. It is the Corinthian capital of polished society. Edmund Burke Society 92
Early and provident fear is the mother of safety. Edmund Burke Fear 90
The yielding of the weak is the concession to fear. Edmund Burke Weakness 89
Manners are of more importance than laws. Manners are what vex or soothe, corrupt or purify, exalt or debase, barbarize or refine us, by a constant, steady, uniform, insensible operation, like that of the air we breathe in. Edmund Burke Manners 89
A disposition to preserve, and an ability to improve, taken together, would be my standard of a statesman. Edmund Burke Politics 89
If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free; if our wealth commands us, we are poor indeed. Edmund Burke Command 88
That the greatest security of the people, against the encroachments and usurpations of their superiors, is to keep the Spirit of Liberty constantly awake, is an undeniable truth. Edmund Burke 88
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 Ancestors 87
Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other Edmund Burke Example 87
No men can act with effect who do not act in concert; no men can act in concert who do not act with confidence; no men can act with confidence who are not bound together with common opinions, common affections, and common interests. Edmund Burke Action 87
All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter. Edmund Burke Government 86
In a democracy, the majority of the citizens is capable of exercising the most cruel oppressions upon the minority. Edmund Burke Democracy 86
Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows, and of lending existence to nothing. Edmund Burke Art 86
Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little. Edmund Burke Greater 85
A State without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation. Edmund Burke change 85
The use of force alone is but temporary. It may subdue for a moment; but it does not remove the necessity of subduing again: and a nation is not governed, which is perpetually to be conquered. Edmund Burke Power 84
Frugality is founded on the principal that all riches have limits. Edmund Burke Economics 84
Woman is not made to be the admiration of all, but the happiness of one. Edmund Burke Admiration 83

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