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Edmund Burke Quotes | Quotes said by Edmund Burke

  • Edmund Burke Quote #1

    A conscientious man would be cautious how he dealt in blood.


  • Edmund Burke Quote #2

    A representative owes not just his industry but his judgement

  • Edmund Burke Quote #3

    A State without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation.

  • Edmund Burke Quote #4

    All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter.

  • Edmund Burke Quote #5

    All that is necessary for evil to succeed is that good men do nothing.

  • Edmund Burke Quote #6

    Among a people generally corrupt, liberty cannot long exist.

  • Edmund Burke Quote #7

    Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny.

  • Edmund Burke Quote #8

    Beauty in distress is much the most affecting beauty.

  • Edmund Burke Quote #9

    Beauty is the promise of happiness.

  • Edmund Burke Quote #10

    But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded; and the glory of Europe is extinguished forever.

  • Edmund Burke Quote #11

    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. Those who know what virtuous liberty is, cannot bear to see it disgraced by incapable heads, on account of their having high-sounding words in their mouths.

  • Edmund Burke Quote #12

    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 Quote #13

    But 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. If any of them should happen to propose a scheme of liberty, soberly limited, and defined with proper qualifications, he will be immediately outbid by his competitors, who will produce something more splendidly popular. Suspicions will be raised of his fidelity to his cause. Moderation will be stigmatized as the virtue of cowards; and compromise as the prudence of traitors; until, in hopes of preserving the credit which may enable him to temper, and moderate, on some occasions, the popular leader is obliged to become active in propagating doctrines, and establishing powers, that will afterwards defeat any sober purpose at which he ultimately might have aimed.

  • Edmund Burke Quote #14

    Certainly, Gentlemen, it ought to be the happiness and glory of a representative to live in the strictest union, the closest correspondence, and the most unreserved communication with his constituents. Their wishes ought to have great weight with him; their opinions high respect; their business unremitted attention. It is his duty to sacrifice his repose, his /pleasure, his satisfactions, to theirs/, --- and above all, ever, and in all cases, to prefer their interest to his own.
    But his unbiased opinion, his mature judgement, his enlightened conscience, he ought not to sacrifice to you, to any man, or to any set of men living. These he does not derive from your pleasure, --- no, nor from the law and the Constitution. They are a trust from Providence, for the abuse of which he is deeply answerable. Your Representative owes you, not his industry only, but his judgement; and he betrays, instead of serving you, if he sacrifices it to your opinions.

  • Edmund Burke Quote #15

    Education is the cheap defense of nations.

  • Edmund Burke Quote #16

    Facts are to the mind what food is to the body.

  • Edmund Burke Quote #17

    Good order is the foundation of all things.

  • Edmund Burke Quote #18

    He that accuses all mankind of corruption ought to remember that he is sure to convict only one.

  • Edmund Burke Quote #19

    History consists, for the greater part, of the miseries brought upon the world by pride, ambition, avarice, revenge, lust, sedition, hypocrisy, ungoverned zeal, and all the train of disorderly appetites, which shake the public with the same
    —“troublous storms that toss
    The private state, and render life unsweet.”
    These vices are the causes of those storms. Religion, morals, laws, prerogatives, privileges, liberties, rights of men, are the pretexts.

  • Edmund Burke Quote #20

    History is the preceptor of prudence, not principles.

  • Edmund Burke Quote #21

    I have not yet lost a feeling of wonder, and of delight, that the delicate motion should reside in all the things around us, revealing itself only to him who looks for it.

  • Edmund Burke Quote #22

    If ever we should find ourselves disposed not to admire those writers or artists, Livy and Virgil for instance, Raphael or Michael Angelo, whom all the learned had admired, [we ought] not to follow our own fancies, but to study them until we know how and what we ought to admire; and if we cannot arrive at this combination of admiration with knowledge, rather to believe that we are dull, than that the rest of the world has been imposed on.

  • Edmund Burke Quote #23

    If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free. If our wealth commands us, we are poor indeed.

  • Edmund Burke Quote #24

    If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free; if our wealth commands us, we are poor indeed.

  • Edmund Burke Quote #25

    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 Quote #26

    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 Quote #27

    It is ordained in the eternal constitution of things, that men of intemperate minds cannot be free. Their passions forge their fetters.

  • Edmund Burke Quote #28

    It is our ignorance of things that causes all our admiration and chiefly excites our passions.

  • Edmund Burke Quote #29

    It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact.

  • Edmund Burke Quote #30

    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.

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