Edmund Burke quotes

Superstition is the religion of feeble minds. (Edmund Burke)
All the forces of darkness need to succeed ... is for the people to do nothing.
Edmund Burke
Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny.
Edmund Burke
You can never plan the future by the past.
Edmund Burke
The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.
Edmund Burke
Good order is the foundation of all good things.
Edmund Burke
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. They will become flatterers instead of legislators; the instruments, not the guides, of the people.
Edmund Burke
History is a pact between the dead, the living, and the yet unborn.
Edmund Burke
No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.
Edmund Burke
It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact.
Edmund Burke
Laws, like houses, lean on one another. (Edmund Burke)
Patience will achieve more than force.
Edmund Burke
Under the pressure of the cares and sorrows of our mortal condition, men have at all times, and in all countries, called in some physical aid to their moral consolations - wine, beer, opium, brandy, or tobacco.
Edmund Burke
Custom reconciles us to everything.
Edmund Burke
To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
Edmund Burke
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
There is a boundary to men's passions when they act from feelings; but none when they are under the influence of imagination.
Edmund Burke
Whenever our neighbour's house is on fire, it cannot be amiss for the engines to play a little on our own.
Edmund Burke
Better to be despised for too anxious apprehensions than ruined by too confident a security.
Edmund Burke
The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion.
Edmund Burke
People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors. (Edmund Burke)
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.
Edmund Burke
Whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither, in my opinion, is safe.
Edmund Burke
The tyranny of a multitude is a multiplied tyranny.
Edmund Burke
The first and simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind, is curiosity.
Edmund Burke