History Quotes by Edmund Burke

He only deserves to be remembered by posterity who treasures up and preserves the history of his ancestors.

— Edmund Burke

History is a pact between the dead, the living, and the yet unborn.

— Edmund Burke

“Those who don't know history are doomed to repeat it.”

— Edmund Burke

“History is the preceptor of prudence, not principles.”

— Edmund Burke

Those who don't know history are destined to repeat it.

— Edmund Burke

When slavery is established in any part of the world, those who are free are by far the most proud and jealous…

— Edmund Burke

Many of the greatest tyrants on the records of history have begun their reigns in the fairest manner. But the truth is,…

— Edmund Burke

History consists, for the greater part, of the miseries brought upon the world by pride, ambition, avarice, revenge, lust, sedition, hypocrisy, ungoverned…

— Edmund Burke

In history, a great volume is unrolled for our instruction, drawing the materials of future wisdom from the past errors and infirmities…

— Edmund Burke

Sallust is indisputably one of the best historians among the Romans, both for the purity of his language and the elegance of…

— Edmund Burke

England and Ireland may flourish together. The world is large enough for both of us. Let it be our care not to…

— Edmund Burke

Continue to instruct the world; and - whilst we carry on a poor unequal conflict with the passions and prejudices of our…

— Edmund Burke

Reflect how you are to govern a people who think they ought to be free, and think they are not. Your scheme…

— Edmund Burke

“Many of the greatest tyrants on the records of history have begun their reigns in the fairest manner. But the truth is,…

— Edmund Burke

“Wise men will apply their remedies to vices, not to names; to the causes of evil which are permanent, not to the…

— Edmund Burke

All those instances to be found in history, whether real or fabulous, of a doubtful public spirit, at which morality is perplexed,…

— Edmund Burke

War is the matter which fills all history; and consequently the only, or almost the only, view in which we can see…

— Edmund Burke

There was an ancient Roman lawyer, of great fame in the history of Roman jurisprudence, whom they called Cui Bono, from his…

— Edmund Burke

In on summer they have done their business... they have completely pulled down to the ground their monarchy, their church, their nobility,…

— Edmund Burke

“History consists, for the greater part, of the miseries brought upon the world by pride, ambition, avarice, revenge, lust, sedition, hypocrisy, ungoverned…

— Edmund Burke

I find along with many virtues in my countrymen there is a jealousy, a soreness, and readiness to take offence, as if…

— Edmund Burke

We are in a war of a peculiar nature. It is not with an ordinary community, which is hostile or friendly as…

— Edmund Burke