Inspirational Quotes by Edmund Burke

The grand instructor, time.

— Edmund Burke

Liberty, without wisdom, is license.

— Edmund Burke

That cardinal virtue, temperance.

— Edmund Burke

Responsibility prevents crimes.

— Edmund Burke

Where mystery begins religion ends.

— Edmund Burke

Public calamity is a mighty leveller.

— Edmund Burke

Turn over a new leaf.

— Edmund Burke

Contempt is not a thing to be despised.

— Edmund Burke

Wars are just to those to whom they are necessary.

— Edmund Burke

Men have no right to what is not reasonable, and to what is not for their benefit.

— Edmund Burke

The ocean is an object of no small terror.

— Edmund Burke

A nation is not conquered which is perpetually to be conquered.

— Edmund Burke

Depend upon it that the lovers of freedom will be free.

— Edmund Burke

Abstract liberty, like other mere abstractions, is not to be found.

— Edmund Burke

Of this stamp is the cant of, Not men, but measures.

— Edmund Burke

Water is insipid, inodorous, colorless and smooth.

— Edmund Burke

Nothing is so rash as fear; its counsels very rarely put off, whilst they are always sure to aggravate the evils from…

— Edmund Burke

Society cannot exist unless a controlling power upon will and appetite be placed somewhere, and the less of it there is within,…

— Edmund Burke

Adversity is a severe instructor, set over us by one who knows us better than we do ourselves.

— Edmund Burke

Crimes lead one into another; they who are capable of being forgers are capable of being incendiaries.

— Edmund Burke

Learning will be cast into the mire and trodden down under the hoofs of a swinish multitude.

— Edmund Burke

The most favourable laws can do very little towards the happiness of people when the disposition of the ruling power is adverse…

— Edmund Burke

I take toleration to be a part of religion. I do not know which I would sacrifice; I would keep them both:…

— Edmund Burke

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

The wisdom of our ancestors.

— Edmund Burke

Education is a nation's cheapest defence

— Edmund Burke

War never leaves where it found a nation.

— Edmund Burke

Early and provident fear is the mother of safety.

— Edmund Burke

He was not merely a chip off the old block, but the old block itself.

— Edmund Burke

Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants.

— Edmund Burke

Woman is not made to be the admiration of all, but the happiness of one.

— Edmund Burke

[Slavery] is a weed that grows in every soil.

— Edmund Burke

My vigour relents. I pardon something to the spirit of liberty.

— Edmund Burke

A nation without means of reform is without means of survival.

— Edmund Burke

Circumspection and caution are part of wisdom.

— Edmund Burke

The concessions of the weak are the concessions of fear.

— Edmund Burke

The greatest sin is to do nothing because you can only do a little.

— Edmund Burke

The yielding of the weak is the concession to fear.

— Edmund Burke