Colorless Quotes by Edmund Burke

It is the interest of the commercial world that wealth should be found everywhere.

— Edmund Burke

“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

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

“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

“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

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

— Edmund Burke

A speculative despair is unpardonable where it our duty to act.

— Edmund Burke

The great must submit to the dominion of prudence and of virtue, or none will long submit to the dominion of thegreat.

— Edmund Burke

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

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

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

You can never plan the future by the past.

— Edmund Burke

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

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

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