To tax and to please, no more than to love and to be wise, is not given to men. — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
Men have no right to what is not reasonable, and to what is not for their benefit. — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
They never will love where they ought to love, who do not hate where they ought to hate. — 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 love of lucre, though sometimes carried to a ridiculous excess, a vicious excess, is the grand cause of prosperity to all… — 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
We begin our public affection in our families. No cold relation is a zealous citizen. — 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
Curiosity is the most superficial of all the affections; it changes its object perpetually; it has an appetite which is very sharp,… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
It is the love of the people; it is their attachment to their government, from the sense of the deep stake they… — 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
There is a wide difference between admiration and love. The sublime, which is the cause of the former, always dwells on great… — 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
Men are qualified for civil liberties in exact proportion to their disposition to put moral chains upon their appetites: in proportion as… — 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… — 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
My hold of the colonies is in the close affection which grows from common names, from kindred blood, from similar privileges, and… — 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
