EDMUND BURKE QUOTES II

British statesman, economist, & philosopher (1729-1797)

Edmund Burke quote

Never, no, never did Nature say one thing and Wisdom say another.

EDMUND BURKE

Letters on a Regicide Peace


Nothing tends more to the corruption of science than to suffer it to stagnate. These waters must be troubled before they can exert their virtues. A man who works beyond the surface of things, though he may be wrong himself, yet he clears the way for others, and may chance to make even his errors subservient to the cause of truth.

EDMUND BURKE

The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke


The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.

EDMUND BURKE


Nothing is so fatal to religion as indifference.

EDMUND BURKE

letter to Wm. Smith, January 29, 1795


Whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither is, in my opinion, safe.

EDMUND BURKE

letter, October 1789


A wise and salutary neglect.

EDMUND BURKE

speech on the conciliation of America


Patience will achieve more than force.

EDMUND BURKE

Reflections on the Revolution in France


A very great part of the mischiefs that vex the world arises from words.

EDMUND BURKE

letter to Richard Burke


Laws, like houses, lean on one another.

EDMUND BURKE

Tracts Relative to the Laws Against Popery in Ireland


Hypocrisy, of course, delights in the most sublime speculations; for, never intending to go beyond speculation, it costs nothing to have it magnificent.

EDMUND BURKE

Reflections on the Revolution in France


The writers against religion, whilst they oppose every system, are wisely careful never to set up any of their own.

EDMUND BURKE

preface, A Vindication of Natural Society


The person who grieves, suffers his passion to grow upon him; he indulges it, he loves it; but this never happens in the case of actual pain, which no man ever willingly endured for any considerable time.

EDMUND BURKE

A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful


All persons possessing any portion of power ought to be strongly and awfully impressed with an idea that they act in trust and that they are to account for their conduct in that trust to the one great Master, Author, and Founder of society.

EDMUND BURKE

Reflections on the Revolution in France


Abstract liberty, like other mere abstractions, is not to be found.

EDMUND BURKE

second speech on Conciliation with America, 1775

Tags: liberty


Manners are of more importance than laws. The law can touch us here and there, now and then. 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

Letters On a Regicide Peace


To innovate is not to reform.

EDMUND BURKE

A Letter to a Noble Lord


The effect of liberty to individuals is, that they may do what they please: we ought to see what it will please them to do, before we risk congratulations.

EDMUND BURKE

Reflections on the Revolution in France


Good order is the foundation of all good things.

EDMUND BURKE

Reflections on the Revolution in France


People crushed by law, have no hopes but from power. If laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to laws; and those who have much to hope and nothing to lose, will always be dangerous.

EDMUND BURKE

letter to Charles James Fox, October 8, 1777


Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver.

EDMUND BURKE

Reflections on the Revolution in France