When a great man has some one object in view to be achieved in a given time, it may be absolutely necessary… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
Though ugliness be the opposite of beauty, it is not the opposite to proportion and fitness; for it is possible that a… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
Religion is for the man in humble life, and to raise his nature, and to put him in mind of a state… — 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 may be observed, that very polished languages, and such as are praised for their superior clearness and perspicuity, are generally deficient… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
If the prudence of reserve and decorum dictates silence in some circumstances, in others prudence of a higher order may justify us… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
A thing may look specious in theory, and yet be ruinous in practice; a thing may look evil in theory, and yet… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
I cannot conceive how any man can have brought himself to that pitch of presumption, to consider his country as nothing but… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
The effect of liberty to individuals is that they may do what they please: we ought to see what it will please… — 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
