I would rather sleep in the southern corner of a little country churchyard than in the tomb of the Capulets. — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
Jacobinism is the revolt of the enterprising talents of a country against its property. — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
There ought to be system of manners in every nation which a well-formed mind would be disposed to relish. To make us… — 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
In a free country every man thinks he has a concern in all public matters,--that he has a right to form and… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
The blood of man should never be shed but to redeem the blood of man. It is well shed for our family,… — 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 of our country with our dearest domestic ties; adopting our fundamental laws into the bosom of our family affections; keeping inseparable and cherishing with the warmth of all their combined and mutually reflected charities, our state,… — Edmund Burke Copy Share
But a good patriot, and a true politician, always considers how he shall make the most of the existing materials of his… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
I am not one of those who think that the people are never in the wrong. They have been so, frequently and… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
We are in a war of a peculiar nature. It is not with an ordinary community, which is hostile or friendly as… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
To be attached to the subdivision, to love the little platoon we belong to in society, is the first principle (the germ… — 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 power corrupts both the heart and the understanding. And to prevent the least hope of amendment, a king is ever surrounded by a crowd of infamous flatterers, who find their account in keeping him from the… — 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 of our country with our dearest domestic ties; adopting our fundamental laws into the bosom of our family affections; keeping inseparable and cherishing with the warmth of all their combined and mutually reflected charities, our state,… — 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 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 all perfection. As the ends of such a partnership cannot be obtained in many generations, it becomes a partnership not only between those who are living, but between those who are living, those who are dead,… — Edmund Burke Copy Share
