All that is necessary for evil to succeed is for good men to do nothing as they must if they believe they… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
The wise determine from the gravity of the case; the irritable, from sensibility to oppression; the high minded, from disdain and indignation… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
And having looked to Government for bread, on the very first scarcity they will turn and bite the hand that fed them. — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
Is it in destroying and pulling down that skill is displayed? The shallowest understanding, the rudest hand, is more than equal to… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
In doing good, we are generally cold, and languid, and sluggish; and of all things afraid of being too much in the… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
Power, in whatever hands, is rarely guilty of too strict limitations on itself. — 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
Men have no right to put the well-being of the present generation wholly out of the question. Perhaps the only moral trust… — 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
