Edmund Burke Quotes (52 quotations)
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1. A man who works beyond the surface of things, though he may be wrong himself, yet he clears the way for others and may make even his errors subservient to the cause of truth. - Edmund Burke
2. A State without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation. - Edmund Burke
3. All government - indeed, every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue and every prudent act - is founded on compromise and barter. - Edmund Burke
4. All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter. - Edmund Burke
5. All that is necessary for evil to succeed is that good men do nothing. - Edmund Burke
6. All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing. - Edmund Burke
7. Among a people generally corrupt liberty cannot long exist. - Edmund Burke
8. An event has happened, upon which it is difficult to speak, and impossible to be silent. - Edmund Burke
9. Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones. - Edmund Burke
10. Bad law is the worst sort of tyranny. - Edmund Burke
11. Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny. - Edmund Burke
12. Beauty is the promise of happiness. - Edmund Burke
13. Better be despised for too anxious apprehensions, than ruined by too confident security. - Edmund Burke
14. Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other. - Edmund Burke
15. Falsehood is a perennial spring. - Edmund Burke
16. For evil to triumph, good men have to do nothing. - Edmund Burke
17. Fraud is the ready minister of injustice. - Edmund Burke
18. Good order is the foundation of all things. - Edmund Burke
19. He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper. - Edmund Burke
20. Hypocrisy can afford to be magnificent in its promises; for never intending to go beyond promises; it costs nothing. - Edmund Burke
21. I thought ten thousand swords must have leaped from their scabbards to avenge even a look that threatened her with insult. But the age of chivalry is gone. - Edmund Burke
22. If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free; if our wealth commands us, we are poor indeed. - Edmund Burke
23. It is a general popular error to suppose the loudest complainers for the public to be the most anxious for its welfare. - Edmund Burke
24. It is by imitation, far more than by precept, that we learn everything; and what we learn thus, we acquire not only more efficiently, but more pleasantly. This forms our manners, our opinions, our lives. - Edmund Burke
25. It is hard to say whether the doctors of law or divinity have made the greater advances in the lucrative business of mystery. - Edmund Burke
2. A State without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation. - Edmund Burke
3. All government - indeed, every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue and every prudent act - is founded on compromise and barter. - Edmund Burke
4. All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter. - Edmund Burke
5. All that is necessary for evil to succeed is that good men do nothing. - Edmund Burke
6. All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing. - Edmund Burke
7. Among a people generally corrupt liberty cannot long exist. - Edmund Burke
8. An event has happened, upon which it is difficult to speak, and impossible to be silent. - Edmund Burke
9. Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones. - Edmund Burke
10. Bad law is the worst sort of tyranny. - Edmund Burke
11. Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny. - Edmund Burke
12. Beauty is the promise of happiness. - Edmund Burke
13. Better be despised for too anxious apprehensions, than ruined by too confident security. - Edmund Burke
14. Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other. - Edmund Burke
15. Falsehood is a perennial spring. - Edmund Burke
16. For evil to triumph, good men have to do nothing. - Edmund Burke
17. Fraud is the ready minister of injustice. - Edmund Burke
18. Good order is the foundation of all things. - Edmund Burke
19. He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper. - Edmund Burke
20. Hypocrisy can afford to be magnificent in its promises; for never intending to go beyond promises; it costs nothing. - Edmund Burke
21. I thought ten thousand swords must have leaped from their scabbards to avenge even a look that threatened her with insult. But the age of chivalry is gone. - Edmund Burke
22. If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free; if our wealth commands us, we are poor indeed. - Edmund Burke
23. It is a general popular error to suppose the loudest complainers for the public to be the most anxious for its welfare. - Edmund Burke
24. It is by imitation, far more than by precept, that we learn everything; and what we learn thus, we acquire not only more efficiently, but more pleasantly. This forms our manners, our opinions, our lives. - Edmund Burke
25. It is hard to say whether the doctors of law or divinity have made the greater advances in the lucrative business of mystery. - Edmund Burke
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