Edmund Burke quotes - page 2

Never despair, but if you do, work on in despair. (Edmund Burke)
An event... upon which it is difficult to speak, and impossible to be silent.
Edmund Burke
Toleration is good for all, or it is good for none.
Edmund Burke
Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver.
Edmund Burke
Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other.
Edmund Burke
Religious persecution may shield itself under the guise of a mistaken and over-zealous piety.
Edmund Burke
If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free; if our wealth commands us, we are poor indeed.
Edmund Burke
Kings will be tyrants from policy, when subjects are rebels from principle.
Edmund Burke
The arrogance of age must submit to be taught by youth.
Edmund Burke
Mere parsimony is not economy. Expense, and great expense, may be an essential part in true economy.
Edmund Burke
Politics and the pulpit are terms that have little agreement. (Edmund Burke)
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.
Edmund Burke
Free trade is not based on utility but on justice.
Edmund Burke
If the people are happy, united, wealthy, and powerful, we presume the rest. We conclude that to be good from whence good is derived.
Edmund Burke
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
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
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
Frugality is founded on the principal that all riches have limits.
Edmund Burke
Tyrants seldom want pretexts.
Edmund Burke
The march of the human mind is slow.
Edmund Burke
In effect, to follow, not to force the public inclination; to give a direction, a form, a technical dress, and a specific sanction, to the general sense of the community, is the true end of legislature. (Edmund Burke)
To tax and to please, no more than to love and to be wise, is not given to men.
Edmund Burke
Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom; and a great empire and little minds go ill together.
Edmund Burke
I have never yet seen any plan which has not been mended by the observations of those who were much inferior in understanding to the person who took the lead in the business.
Edmund Burke
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