Adversity is a severe instructor, set over us by one who knows us better than we do ourselves. — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
I do not know the method of drawing up an indictment against a whole people. — 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
The people of England well know that the idea of inheritance furnishes a sure principle of conservation and a sure principle of… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
Who can know her, and himself, and entertain much hope? Who can see and know such a creature, and not love her… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
A man is allowed sufficient freedom of thought, provided he knows how to choose his subject properly.... But the scene is changed… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
The great Error of our Nature is, not to know where to stop, not to be satisfied with any reasonable Acquirement; not… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
When ancient opinions and rules of life are taken away, the loss cannot possibly be estimated. From that moment, we have no… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
It looks to me to be narrow and pedantic to apply the ordinary ideas of criminal justice to this great public contest.… — 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
Adversity is a severe instructor, set over us by one who knows us better than we do ourselves, as he loves us… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
Despots govern by terror. They know that he who fears God fears nothing else; and therefore they eradicate from the mind, through… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
I do not know how to wish success to those whose Victory is to separate from us a large and noble part… — 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
