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… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
In effect, to follow, not to force the public inclination; to give a direction, a form, a technical dress, and a specific… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
Refined policy ever has been the parent of confusion, and ever will be so as long as the world endures. Plain good… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
Whatever each man can separately do, without trespassing upon others, he has a right to do for himself; and he has a… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
All the forces of darkness need to succeed ... is for the people to do nothing. — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
Taste and elegance, though they are reckoned only among the smaller and secondary morals, yet are of no mean importance in the… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
In general the languages of most unpolished people have a great force and energy of expression; and this is but natural. Uncultivated… — 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
Knowledge of those unalterable Relations which Providence has ordained that every thing should bear to every other...To these we should conform in… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
When any work seems to have required immense force and labor to effect it, the idea is grand. — 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
