Quotes Edmund Burke

A disposition to preserve, and an ability to improve, taken ...

A spirit of innovation is generally the result of a selfish ...

A State without the means of some change is without the mean...

All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, ev...

All human laws are, properly speaking, only declaratory; the...

All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is for good me...

All that's necessary for the forces of evil to win in the wo...

Ambition can creep as well as soar....

Among a people generally corrupt liberty cannot long exist....

Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak...

Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny....

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

Beauty is the promise of happiness....

But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophisters, economi...

But what is liberty without wisdom, and without virtue? It i...

By gnawing through a dike, even a rat may drown a nation....

Circumstances give in reality to every political principle i...

Custom reconciles us to everything....

Education is the cheap defense of nations....

Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no ...

Facts are to the mind what food is to the body....

Falsehood is a perennial spring....

Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver....

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

Frugality is founded on the principal that all riches have l...