Man is by his constitution a religious animal; atheism is against not only our reason, but our instincts. — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
Freedom and not servitude is the cure of anarchy; as religion, and not atheism, is the true remedy of superstition. — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
The writers against religion, while they oppose every system, are wisely careful never to set up any of their own. — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation. — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
Religion is the basis of civil society, and the source of all good and of all comfort. — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
True religion is the foundation of society. When that is once shaken by contempt, the whole fabric cannot be stable nor lasting. — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
Nothing is so fatal to religion as indifference, which is, at least, half infidelity — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
“Religion, by ‘consecrating’ the state, gives the people an added impetus to respect and regard their regime.” — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
A good parson once said that where mystery begins religion ends. Cannot I say, as truly at least, of human laws, that… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
I have been told by an eminent bookseller, that in no branch of his business , after tracts of popular devotion, were… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
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… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
The body of all true religion consists, to be sure, in obedience to the will of the Sovereign of the world, in… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
A spirit of innovation is generally the result of a selfish temper and confined views. People will not look forward to posterity,… — 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
I take toleration to be a part of religion. I do not know which I would sacrifice; I would keep them both:… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
When you find me attempting to break into your house to take your plate, under any pretence whatsoever, but most of all… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
Politics and the pulpit are terms that have little agreement. No sound ought to be heard in the church but the healing… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
Religious persecution may shield itself under the guise of a mistaken and over-zealous piety. — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
Old religious factions are volcanoes burned out; on the lava and ashes and squalid scoriae of old eruptions grow the peaceful olive,… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
Our manners, our civilization, and all the good things connected with manners and civilization, have, in this European world of ours, depended… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
The introduction of Christianity, which, under whatever form, always confers such inestimable benefits on mankind, soon made a sensible change in these… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
That the greatest security of the people, against the encroachments and usurpations of their superiors, is to keep the Spirit of Liberty… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
The religion most prevalent in our northern colonies is a refinement on the principles of resistance: it is the dissidence of dissent,… — 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
