Whatever is fitted in any sort to excite the ideas of pain and danger, that is to say, whatever is in any… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
It is very rare, indeed, for men to be wrong in their feelings concerning public misconduct; as rare to be right in… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
There are some men formed with feelings so blunt that they can hardly be said to be awake during the whole course… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
Whatever is fitted in any sort to excite the ideas of pain, and danger, that is to say, whatever is in any… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
I have not yet lost a feeling of wonder, and of delight, that the delicate motion should reside in all the things… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
The greatest crimes do not arise from a want of feeling for others but from an over-sensibilit y for ourselves and an… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
There is a boundary to men's passions when they act from feelings; but none when they are under the influence of imagination. — 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
