Religion, to have any force upon men's understandings,--indeed, to exist at all,--must be supposed paramount to law, and independent for its substance… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
He who calls in the aid of an equal understanding doubles his own; and he who profits by a superior understanding raises… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
Unsociable humors are contracted in solitude, which will, in the end, not fail of corrupting the understanding as well as the manners,… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
There is nothing in the world really beneficial that does not lie within the reach of an informed understanding and a well-protected… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
When you fear something, learn as much about it as you can. Knowledge conquers fear. — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
I have never yet seen any plan which has not been mended by the observations of those who were much inferior in… — 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
Is it in destroying and pulling down that skill is displayed? The shallowest understanding, the rudest hand, is more than equal to… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
He that borrows the aid of an equal understanding doubles his own; he that uses that of a superior elevates his own… — 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
