All that is necessary for evil to succeed is for good men to do nothing as they must if they believe they… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
Religion is for the man in humble life, and to raise his nature, and to put him in mind of a state… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
God has sometimes converted wickedness into madness; and it is to the credit of human reason that men who are not in… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
It is very rare, indeed, for men to be wrong in their feelings concerning public misconduct; as rare to be right in… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
A man is allowed sufficient freedom of thought, provided he knows how to choose his subject properly… But the scene is changed… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
We must soften into a credulity below the milkiness of infancy to think all men virtuous. We must be tainted with a… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
I cannot conceive how any man can have brought himself to that pitch of presumption, to consider his country as nothing but… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
As the rose-tree is composed of the sweetest flowers and the sharpest thorns, as the heavens are sometimes overcast—alternately tempestuous and serene—so… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
The moment you abate anything from the full rights of men to each govern himself, and suffer any artificial positive limitation upon… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
It is better to cherish virtue and humanity, by leaving much to free will, even with some loss of the object ,… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
No men can act with effect who do not act in concert; no men can act in concert who do not act… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
Wise men will apply their remedies to vices, not to names; to the causes of evil which are permanent, not the occasional… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
My good friends, while I do most earnestly recommend you to take care of your health and safety, as things most precious… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
The only kind of sublimity which a painter or sculptor should aim at is to express by certain proportions and positions of… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
Party is a body of men united, for promoting by their joint endeavours the national interest, upon some particular principle in which… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
It is the nature of tyranny and rapacity never to learn moderation from the ill-success of first oppressions; on the contrary, all… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
It is the interest of the commercial world that wealth should be found everywhere. — Edmund Burke Copy Share
“Many of the greatest tyrants on the records of history have begun their reigns in the fairest manner. But the truth is, this unnatural… — Edmund Burke Copy Share
In this choice of inheritance we have given to our frame of polity the image of a relation in blood; binding up the constitution… — Edmund Burke Copy Share
“Wise men will apply their remedies to vices, not to names; to the causes of evil which are permanent, not to the occasional organs… — Edmund Burke Copy Share
“A man full of warm, speculative benevolence may wish his society otherwise constituted than he finds it; but a good patriot, and a true… — Edmund Burke Copy Share
The great must submit to the dominion of prudence and of virtue, or none will long submit to the dominion of thegreat. — Edmund Burke Copy Share
Those who have been once intoxicated with power, and have derived any kind of emolument from it, even though but for one year, never… — Edmund Burke Copy Share
What is it we all seek for in an election? To answer its real purposes, you must first possess the means of knowing the… — Edmund Burke Copy Share
Society is indeed a contract. It is a partnership in all science; a partnership in all art; a partnership in every virtue, and in… — Edmund Burke Copy Share
The great inlet by which a colour for oppression has entered into the world is by one man's pretending to determine concerning the happiness… — Edmund Burke Copy Share
By the disposition of a stupendous wisdom, moulding together the great mysterious incorporation of the human race, the whole, at one time, is never… — Edmund Burke Copy Share
Religion, to have any force upon men's understandings,--indeed, to exist at all,--must be supposed paramount to law, and independent for its substance upon any… — Edmund Burke Copy Share
