It is the interest of the commercial world that wealth should be found everywhere. — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
Man acts from adequate motives relative to his interest, and not on metaphysical speculations. — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
The question is not whether you have a right to render people miserable, but whether it is not in your best interest… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
The public interest requires doing today those things that men of intelligence and good will would wish, five or ten years hence,… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
Party is a body of men united, for promoting by their joint endeavours the national interest, upon some particular principle in which… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
The marketplace obliges men, whether they will or not, in pursuing their own selfish interests, to connect the general good with their… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
As mankind becomes more enlightened to know their real interests, they will esteem the value of agriculture; they will find it in… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
The superfluities of a rich nation furnish a better object of trade than the necessities of a poor one. It is the… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
Parliament is a deliberate assembly of one nation, with one interest, that of the whole; where, not local purpose, not local prejudices… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
No men can act with effect who do not act in concert; no men can act in concert who do not act… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
To govern according to the sense and agreement of the interests of the people is a great and glorious object of governance.… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
All writers on the science of policy are agreed, and they agree with experience, that all governments must frequently infringe the rules… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
It is from this absolute indifference and tranquillity of the mind, that mathematical speculations derive some of the most considerable advantages; because… — 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
Parliament is not a congress of ambassadors from different and hostile interests; which interests each must maintain, as an agent and advocate,… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
We are in a war of a peculiar nature. It is not with an ordinary community, which is hostile or friendly as… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
Society is indeed a contract. Subordinate contracts for objects of mere occasional interest may be dissolved at pleasure - but the state… — 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
