Edmund Burke Quotes and Quotations
Ambition can creep as well as soar.
Mere parsimony is not economy . . . expense, and great expense, may be an essential part of true economy.
Custom reconciles us to everything.
You can never plan the future by the past.
Well is it known that ambition can creep as well as soar.
History is a pact between the dead, the living, and the yet unborn.
The effect of liberty on individuals is that they may do what they please: we ought to see what it will please them to do, before we risk congratulations.
By gnawing through a dyke, even a rat may drown a nation.
A disposition to preserve, and an ability to improve, taken together, would be my standard of a statesman.
Your representative owes you, not his industry only, but his judgement; and he betrays instead of serving you if he sacrifices it to your opinion.
Ambition can creep as well as soar.
A nation without the means of reform is without the means of survival.
By gnawing through a dyke, even a rat may drown a nation.
The writers against religion, whilst they oppose every system, are wisely careful never to set up any of their own.
All men that are ruined are ruined on the side of their natural propensities.
You cannot plan the future by the past.
Dangers by being despised grow great.
Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other.
No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.
No passion so effectively robs the mind of its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.
There is a courageous wisdom; there is also a false reptile prudence, the result, not of caution, but of fear.
Never despair, but if you do, work on in despair.
Never despair, but if you do, work on in despair.
Nobody makes a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could only do a little.
He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves and sharpens our skills. Our antagonist is our helper.
Adversity is a severe instructor. ... He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper.
Never despair, but if you do, work on in despair.
Politics and the pulpit are terms that have little agreement.
All government - indeed, every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue and every prudent act - is founded on compromise and barter.
Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants.
I would rather sleep in the southern corner of a little country churchyard, than in the tombs of the Capulets.
We set ourselves to bite the hand that feeds us.
The cold neutrality of an impartial judge.
The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion.
The cold neutrality of an impartial judge.
Queen of arts, and daughter of heaven.
People will not look forward to posterity who never look backward to their ancestors.
What shadows we are, what shadows we pursue!
Superstition is the religion of feeble minds.
Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny.
War never leaves, where it found a nation.
The wisdom of our ancestors.
A very great part of the mischiefs that vex this world arises from words.
Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other.
You can never plan the future by the past.
Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other.
You can never plan the future by the past.
Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other.
You can never plan the future by the past.
Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other.
You can never plan the future by the past.
Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other.
You can never plan the future by the past.
Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other.
You can never plan the future by the past.
Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other.
You can never plan the future by the past.
Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other.
You can never plan the future by the past.