The moment that government appears at market, the principles of the market will be subverted. — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
There is a time when the hoary head of inveterate abuse will neither draw reverence nor obtain protection. — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
The hottest fires in hell are reserved for those who remain neutral in times of moral crisis. — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
To complain of the age we live in, to murmur at the present possessors of power, to lament the past, to conceive… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
General rebellions and revolts of a whole people never were encouraged now or at any time. They are always provoked. — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
The individual is foolish; the multitude, for the moment is foolish, when they act without deliberation; but the species is wise, and,… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
The use of force alone is but temporary. It may subdue for a moment; but it does not remove the necessity of… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
Under the pressure of the cares and sorrows of our mortal condition, men have at all times, and in all countries, called… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
When a great man has some one object in view to be achieved in a given time, it may be absolutely necessary… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
Too much idleness, I have observed, fills up a man's time more completely and leaves him less his own master, than any… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
The person who grieves suffers his passion to grow upon him; he indulges it, he loves it; but this never happens in… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
The worthy gentleman who has been snatched from us at the moment of the election, and in the middle of the contest,… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
It is for the most part in our skill in manners, and in the observations of time and place and of decency… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
The great difference between the real leader and the pretender is that the one sees into the future, while the other regards… — 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
“Man is a most unwise, and a most wise, being. The individual is foolish. The multitude, for the moment, is foolish, when… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
Prejudice is of ready application in the emergency; it previously engages the mind in a steady course of wisdom and virtue, and… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
“. . . a nation is not an idea only of local extent, and individual momentary aggregation; but it is an idea… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
In the weakness of one kind of authority, and in the fluctuation of all, the officers of an army will remain for… — 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
