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Edmund Burke Quotes

Total quotes: 21
“Falsehood and delusion are allowed in no case whatever: But, as in the exercise of all the virtues, there is an œconomy of truth. It is a sort of temperance, by which a man speaks truth with measure that he may speak it the longer.”
— Edmund Burke, Letters On a Regicide Peace
Tagged: falsehood, Delusion, Economy, Truth
“A state without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation.”
— Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France
Tagged: state, Change, Conservation
“Slavery they can have anywhere. It is a weed that grows in every soil.”
— Edmund Burke, Second Speech on Conciliation with America
Tagged: Slavery, Weed, Corruption
“Abstract liberty, like other mere abstractions, is not to be found.”
— Edmund Burke, Second Speech on Conciliation with America
Tagged: Abstract, Liberty, Meaning
“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, Second Speech on Conciliation with America
Tagged: force, Government, Conquer
“It is not, what a lawyer tells me I may do; but what humanity, reason, and justice, tell me I ought to do.”
— Edmund Burke, Second Speech on Conciliation with America
Tagged: Law, Lawyer, humanity, Reason, Justice
“We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature, and the means perhaps of its conservation.”
— Edmund Burke, Letter to Sir Hercules Langrishe
Tagged: Law, Change, Nature
“When any work seems to have required immense force and labor to affect it, the idea is grand.”
— Edmund Burke, A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful
Tagged: force, Labor, idea
“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
Tagged: Grieving, Passion, Pain, Suffering, enduring
“The first and the simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind is Curiosity.”
— Edmund Burke, A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful
Tagged: Emotion, Discovery, Curiosity
“The writers against religion, whilst they oppose every system, are wisely careful never to set up any of their own.”
— Edmund Burke, A Vindication of Natural Society
Tagged: writer, Opposing Viewpoints
“Neither the few nor the many have a right to act merely by their will, in any matter connected with duty, trust, engagement, or obligation.”
— Edmund Burke, Appeal from the New Whigs to the Old
Tagged: Right, Will, Duty, Trust, Engagement, Obligation
“You can never plan the future by the past.”
— Edmund Burke, Letter to a Member of the National Assembly
Tagged: Planning, Planning Ahead, Past
“Whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither, in my opinion, is safe.”
— Edmund Burke, Letter to M. de Menonville
Tagged: separation, Liberty, Justice
“Applaud us when we run, console us when we fall, cheer us when we recover.”
— Edmund Burke, Speech at Bristol Previous to the Election
Tagged: Applaud, Console, Recovery
“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
Tagged: Law, Hope, Power, Enemy
“A conscientious man would be cautious how he dealt in blood.”
— Edmund Burke, The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 2
Tagged: Conscience, Caution, Blood
“It is a general popular error to suppose the loudest complainers for the publick to be the most anxious for its welfare.”
— Edmund Burke, Observations on a Late Publication on the Present State of the Nation
Tagged: Error, Wrong Assumption, Complaining
“Laws, like houses, lean on one another.”
— Edmund Burke, Tracts Relative to the Laws Against Popery in Ireland
Tagged: Law, foundation, Houses
“There is a sort of enthusiasm in all projectors, absolutely necessary for their affairs, which makes them proof against the most fatiguing delays, the most mortifying disappointments, the most shocking insults; and, what is severer than all, the presumptuous judgement of the ignorant upon their designs.”
— Edmund Burke, The Works of Edmund Burke: Volume 9
Tagged: Enthusiasm, Disappointments, Ignorance
“He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves and sharpens our skill: our antagonist is our helper.”
— Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France
Tagged: Obstacles
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