Men have no right to what is not reasonable, and to what is not for their benefit. — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
Nothing is so rash as fear; its counsels very rarely put off, whilst they are always sure to aggravate the evils from… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
Society cannot exist unless a controlling power upon will and appetite be placed somewhere, and the less of it there is within,… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
The most favourable laws can do very little towards the happiness of people when the disposition of the ruling power is adverse… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
Learning will be cast into the mire and trodden down under the hoofs of a swinish multitude. — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
I take toleration to be a part of religion. I do not know which I would sacrifice; I would keep them both:… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
Adversity is a severe instructor, set over us by one who knows us better than we do ourselves. — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
Crimes lead one into another; they who are capable of being forgers are capable of being incendiaries. — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants. — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
He was not merely a chip off the old block, but the old block itself. — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
Woman is not made to be the admiration of all, but the happiness of one. — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
As the rose-tree is composed of the sweetest flowers and the sharpest thorns, as the heavens are sometimes overcast—alternately tempestuous and serene—so… — 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
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