The esteem of wise and good men is the greatest of all temporal encouragements to virtue; and it is a mark of… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
Prudence is not only the first in rank of the virtues political and moral, but she is the director and regulator, the… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
Nothing, indeed, but the possession of some power can with any certainty discover what at the bottom is the true character of… — 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
Whilst shame keeps its watch, virtue is not wholly extinguished in the heart; nor will moderation be utterly exiled from the minds… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
Nothing ought to be more weighed than the nature of books recommended by public authority. So recommended, they soon form the character… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
True humility-the basis of the Christian system-is the low but deep and firm foundation of all virtues. — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
Power gradually extirpates from the mind every humane and gentle virtue. — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
“But what is liberty without wisdom and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils; for it is folly, vice,… — 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
It is the interest of the commercial world that wealth should be found everywhere. — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
“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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
