Freedom Quotes by Edmund Burke

The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion.

— Edmund Burke

Among a people generally corrupt liberty cannot long exist.

— Edmund Burke

Liberty must be limited in order to be possessed.

— Edmund Burke

Abstract liberty, like other mere abstractions, is not to be found.

— Edmund Burke

Silence is golden but when it threatens your freedom it's yellow.

— Edmund Burke

Liberty, without wisdom, is license.

— Edmund Burke

Depend upon it that the lovers of freedom will be free.

— Edmund Burke

Liberty does not exist in the absence of morality.

— Edmund Burke

General rebellions and revolts of a whole people never were encouraged now or at any time. They are always provoked.

— Edmund Burke

Freedom and not servitude is the cure of anarchy; as religion, and not atheism, is the true remedy of superstition.

— Edmund Burke

The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedience, and by parts.

— Edmund Burke

To drive men from independence to live on alms, is itself great cruelty.

— Edmund Burke

When slavery is established in any part of the world, those who are free are by far the most proud and jealous…

— Edmund Burke

Rage and frenzy will pull down more in half an hour than prudence, deliberation, and foresight can build up in a hundred…

— Edmund Burke

If any ask me what a free government is, I answer, that for any practical purpose, it is what the people think…

— Edmund Burke

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

— Edmund Burke

What is it we all seek for in an election? To answer its real purposes, you must first possess the means of…

— Edmund Burke

Freedom without virtue is not freedom but license to pursue whatever passions prevail in the intemperate mind; man's right to freedom being…

— Edmund Burke

But what is liberty without wisdom, and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils; for it is folly, vice,…

— Edmund Burke

The individual is foolish; the multitude, for the moment is foolish, when they act without deliberation; but the species is wise, and,…

— Edmund Burke

In a free country every man thinks he has a concern in all public matters,--that he has a right to form and…

— Edmund Burke

A man is allowed sufficient freedom of thought, provided he knows how to choose his subject properly… But the scene is changed…

— Edmund Burke

What is liberty without...virtue? It is...madness, without restraint. Men are qualified for liberty in exact proportion to their disposition to put moral…

— Edmund Burke

The effect of liberty to individuals is that they may do what they please: we ought to see what it will please…

— Edmund Burke

Men are qualified for civil liberty in exact proportion to their disposition to put moral chains upon their own appetites…in proportion as…

— Edmund Burke

The liberty I mean is social freedom. It is that state of things in which liberty is secured by the equality of…

— Edmund Burke

“But what is liberty without wisdom and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils; for it is folly, vice,…

— Edmund Burke

The distinguishing part of our constitution is its liberty. To preserve that liberty inviolate, is the peculiar duty and proper trust of…

— Edmund Burke

“As to the right of men to act anywhere according to their pleasure, without any moral tie, no such right exists. Men…

— Edmund Burke

“The pretended rights of these theorists are all extremes: and in proportion as they are metaphysically true, they are morally and politically…

— Edmund Burke

To give freedom is still more easy. It is not necessary to guide; it only requires to let go the rein. But…

— Edmund Burke

“Men are qualified for civil liberty in exact proportion to their disposition to put moral chains upon their own appetites, — in…

— Edmund Burke

“The Levellers . . . only change and pervert the natural order of things: they load the edifice of society by setting…

— Edmund Burke

“Through the same plan of a conformity to nature in our artificial institutions, and by calling in the aid of her unerring…

— Edmund Burke

My vigour relents. I pardon something to the spirit of liberty.

— Edmund Burke

To prove that the Americans ought not to be free, we are obliged to deprecate the value of freedom itself.

— Edmund Burke

Men are qualified for civil liberty in exact proportion to their disposition to put moral chains upon their own appetites.

— Edmund Burke

If any ask me what a free government is, I answer, that, for any practical purpose, it is what the people think…

— Edmund Burke

The only liberty that is valuable is a liberty connected with order; that not only exists along with order and virtue, but…

— Edmund Burke

“Man is a most unwise, and a most wise, being. The individual is foolish. The multitude, for the moment, is foolish, when…

— Edmund Burke