Freedom and not servitude is the cure of anarchy; as religion, and not atheism, is the true remedy of superstition. — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedience, and by parts. — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
General rebellions and revolts of a whole people never were encouraged now or at any time. They are always provoked. — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
If any ask me what a free government is, I answer, that for any practical purpose, it is what the people think… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
When slavery is established in any part of the world, those who are free are by far the most proud and jealous… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
Rage and frenzy will pull down more in half an hour than prudence, deliberation, and foresight can build up in a hundred… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
To drive men from independence to live on alms, is itself great cruelty. — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
Whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither, in my opinion, is safe. — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
But what is liberty without wisdom, and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils; for it is folly, vice,… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
Freedom without virtue is not freedom but license to pursue whatever passions prevail in the intemperate mind; man's right to freedom being… — 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… — 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 individual is foolish; the multitude, for the moment is foolish, when they act without deliberation; but the species is wise, and,… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
What is liberty without...virtue? It is...madness, without restraint. Men are qualified for liberty in exact proportion to their disposition to put moral… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
A man is allowed sufficient freedom of thought, provided he knows how to choose his subject properly… But the scene is changed… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
It is better to cherish virtue and humanity, by leaving much to free will, even with some loss of the object ,… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
The distinguishing part of our constitution is its liberty. To preserve that liberty inviolate, is the peculiar duty and proper trust of… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
The liberty I mean is social freedom. It is that state of things in which liberty is secured by the equality of… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
Men are qualified for civil liberty in exact proportion to their disposition to put moral chains upon their own appetites…in proportion as… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
“The pretended rights of these theorists are all extremes: and in proportion as they are metaphysically true, they are morally and politically… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
“Men are qualified for civil liberty in exact proportion to their disposition to put moral chains upon their own appetites, — in… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
“Through the same plan of a conformity to nature in our artificial institutions, and by calling in the aid of her unerring… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
“The Levellers . . . only change and pervert the natural order of things: they load the edifice of society by setting… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
Men are qualified for civil liberty in exact proportion to their disposition to put moral chains upon their own appetites. — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
To prove that the Americans ought not to be free, we are obliged to deprecate the value of freedom itself. — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
That the greatest security of the people, against the encroachments and usurpations of their superiors, is to keep the Spirit of Liberty… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
“Man is a most unwise, and a most wise, being. The individual is foolish. The multitude, for the moment, is foolish, when… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
If any ask me what a free government is, I answer, that, for any practical purpose, it is what the people think… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
The effect of liberty to individuals is that they may do what they please: we ought to see what it will please… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
“The effect of liberty to individuals is that they may do what they please; we ought to see what it will please… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
The only liberty that is valuable is a liberty connected with order; that not only exists along with order and virtue, but… — 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
