73 result(s) for Edmund Burke Quotes.
"People will not look forward to posterity who never look backward to their ancestors."
"It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact."
"Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver."
"An event has happened, upon which it is difficult to speak, and impossible to be silent."
"All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent."
"Nobody ever made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could only do a little."
"It is not what a lawyer tells me I may do; but what humanity, reason, and justice tell me I ought to do."
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"He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper."
"Hypocrites kick with the same foot they kiss with."
"Rudeness is the weak man's imitation of strength."
"Wise men will apply their remedies to vices, not to names; to the causes of evil which are permanent, not to the occasional organs by which they act, and the transitory modes in which they appear."
"For evil to flourish, it only requires good men to do nothing."
"When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle."
"Those who have been once intoxicated with power, and have derived any kind of emolument from it, even though but for one year, never can willingly abandon it."
"Society becomes a partnership not only between those who are living, but between those who are living, those who are dead, and those who are to be born."
"Those who attempt to level never equalize."
"Justice is itself the great standing policy of civil society; and any eminent departure from it, under any circumstances, lies under the suspicion of being no policy at all."
"Men are qualified for civil liberty in exact proportion to their disposition to put moral chains upon their own appetites."
"When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall, one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle."
"The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedience, and by parts."
"Those who have been once intoxicated with power... can never willingly abandon it."
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"All types of government are pernicious, including the 'best.'"
"The march of the human mind is slow."
"No power so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear."
"To make us love our country, our country ought to be lovely."
"I venture to say no war can be long carried on against the will of the people."
"Great men are the guideposts and landmarks in the state."
"Your representative owes you, not his industry only, but his judgment."
"It is known of a truth that knowledge is power."
"Those who don't know history are doomed to repeat it."
"Those who don't know from where they have come, will hardly know where they are going."
"The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedience."
"Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny."
"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."
"You can never plan the future by the past."
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"When the leaders choose to make themselves bidders at an auction of popularity, their talents, in the construction of the state, will be of no service."
"Hypocrisy can afford to be magnificent in its promises, for never intending to go beyond promise, it costs nothing."
"No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear."
"The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion."
"To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting."
"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing."
"People crushed by laws, have no hope but to evade power. If the laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to the law; and those who have most to hope and nothing to lose will always be dangerous."
"Those who don't know history are destined to repeat it."
"All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing."
"Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little."
"Your representative owes you, not his industry only, but his judgment; and he betrays instead of serving you if he sacrifices it to your opinion."
"The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedients, and by parts."
"Superstition is the religion of feeble minds."
"Society is a partnership not only between those who are living, but between those who are living, those who are dead, and those who are to be born."
"Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other."
"Those who govern, having much business on their hands, do not generally like to take the trouble of considering and carrying into execution new projects. The best public measures are therefore seldom adopted from previous wisdom, but forced by the occasion."
"Reading without reflecting is like eating without digesting."
"Woman is not made to be the admiration of all, but the happiness of one."
"The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse."
"Never despair, but if you do, work on in despair."
"Our patience will achieve more than our force."
"Good order is the foundation of all things."
"The only thing necessary for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing."
"A state without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation."
"Society is indeed a contract... It is a partnership in all science; a partnership in all art; a partnership in every virtue, and in all perfection. As the ends of such a partnership cannot be obtained in many generations, it becomes a partnership not only between those who are living, but between those who are living, those who are dead, and those who are to be born."
"The state without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation."
"Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants. Men have a right that these wants should be provided for by this wisdom."
"Arbitrary power is easy to build; but hard to rase."
"He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves, and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper."
"But what is liberty without wisdom, and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils; for it is folly, vice, and madness, without tuition or restraint."
"To complain of the age we live in, to murmur at the present possessors of power, to lament the past, to conceive extravagant hopes of the future, are the common dispositions of the greatest part of mankind."
"Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom; and a great empire and little minds go ill together."
"It is a general popular error to suppose the loudest complainers for the public to be the most anxious for its welfare."
"Early and provident fear is the mother of safety."
"The tyranny of a multitude is but a multiplied tyranny."
"Rage and frenzy will pull down more in half an hour than prudence, deliberation, and foresight can build up in a hundred years."
"There is a boundary to the elasticity of oppression."
"Justice is itself the great standing policy of civil society; and any eminent departure from it, under any circumstances, lies under the suspicion of being impolitic."
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