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
Restraint and discipline and examples of virtue and justice. These are the things that form the education of the world. — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
I cannot help concurring with the opinion that an absolute democracy, no more than absolute monarchy, is to be reckoned among the… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
To give freedom is still more easy. It is not necessary to guide; it only requires to let go the rein. But… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
The introduction of Christianity, which, under whatever form, always confers such inestimable benefits on mankind, soon made a sensible change in these… — 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
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
