Edmund Burke Quotes

"Never despair; but if you do, work on in despair."
-Edmund Burke

"He who wrestles with us strengthens our nerves and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper."
-Edmund Burke

"You can never plan the future by the past."
-Edmund Burke

"Good order is the foundation of all things."
-Edmund Burke

"All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing."
-Edmund Burke in Evil quotes.

"Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could only do a little."
-Edmund Burke

"In a democracy, the majority of the citizens is capable of exercising the most cruel oppressions upon the minority."
-Edmund Burke in Democracy quotes.

"Your representative owes you, not his industry only, but judgment; and he betrays, instead of serving you, if he sacrifices it to your opinion."
-Edmund Burke

"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

"Bad law is the worst sort of tyranny."
-Edmund Burke

"Those who don't know history are destined to repeat it."
-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

"Hypocrisy can afford to be magnificent in its promises; for never intending to go beyond promises; it costs nothing."
-Edmund Burke

"When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall, one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle."
-Edmund Burke

"No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear."
-Edmund Burke in Fear quotes.

"Our patience will achieve more than our force."
-Edmund Burke in Patience quotes.

"Society is indeed a contract. It is a partnership in all science; a partnership in all art; a partnership in every virtue, and in all perfection. As the ends of such a partnership cannot be obtained in many generations, it becomes a partnership not only between those who are living, but between those who are living, those who are dead, and those who are to be born."
-Edmund Burke

"The wise determine from the gravity of the case; the irritable, from sensibility to oppression; the high minded, from disdain and indignation at abusive power in unworthy hands."
-Edmund Burke

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

"Whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither, in my opinion, is safe."
-Edmund Burke

"Reading without reflecting is like eating without digesting."
-Edmund Burke

"No one could make a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little."
-Edmund Burke

"Men have no right to put the well-being of the present generation wholly out of the question. Perhaps the only moral trust with any certainty in our hands is the care of our own time."
-Edmund Burke

"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

"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

"Fraud is the ready minister of injustice."
-Edmund Burke

"It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact."
-Edmund Burke