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EDMUND BURKE QUOTES
Edmund Burke (1729-1797)
British statesman and political thinker
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Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny.
EDMUND BURKE, speech at Bristol previous to the election of 1780
The concessions of the weak are the concessions of fear.
EDMUND BURKE, speech on conciliation with America, 1775
EDMUND BURKE, Letters on a Regicide Peace
Falsehood has a perennial spring.
EDMUND BURKE, speech on American Taxation, 1774
When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall, one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.
EDMUND BURKE, Thoughts on the Cause of the Present Discontentment
A state without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation.
EDMUND BURKE, Reflections on the Revolution in France
No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.
EDMUND BURKE, On the Sublime and Beautiful
Young man, there is America -- which at this day serves for little more than to amuse you with stories of savage men, and uncouth manners; yet shall, before you taste of death, show itself equal to the whole of that commerce which now attracts the envy of the world.
EDMUND BURKE, speech on conciliation with America, 1775
The use of force alone is but temporary. It may subdue for the 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, speech on conciliation with America, 1775
Freedom and not servitude is the cure of anarchy; as religion, and not atheism, is the true remedy of superstition.
EDMUND BURKE, speech on conciliation with America, 1775
Custom reconciles us to everything.
EDMUND BURKE, On the Sublime and Beautiful
The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.
EDMUND BURKE, speech on the Middlesex Elections, 1771
You can never plan the future by the past.
EDMUND BURKE, letter to a Member of the National Assembly
Make the Revolution a parent of settlement, and not a nursery of future revolutions.
EDMUND BURKE, Reflections on the Revolution in France
EDMUND BURKE, Reflections on the Revolution in France
The march of the human mind is slow.
EDMUND BURKE, speech on conciliation with America, 1775
Whilst shame keeps its watch, virtue is not wholly extinguished in the heart; nor will moderation be utterly exiled from the minds of tyrants.
EDMUND BURKE, Reflections on the Revolution in France
Power gradually extirpates for the mind every humane and gentle virtue.
EDMUND BURKE, A Vindication of Natural Society
People never give up their liberties but under some delusion.
EDMUND BURKE, speech at County Meeting of Bucks, 1784
There is but one law for all, namely, that 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, speech on Impeachment of Warren Hastings, May 28, 1794
Never, no, never did Nature say one thing and Wisdom say another.
EDMUND BURKE, Letters on a Regicide Peace
Nothing is so fatal to religion as indifference.
EDMUND BURKE, letter to Wm. Smith, Jan 29, 1795
EDMUND BURKE, Reflections on the Revolution in France
The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
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