It is not what a lawyer tells me I may do; but what humanity, reason, and justice tell me I ought to… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
Mere parsimony is not economy. Expense, and great expense, may be an essential part in true economy. — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
Somebody has said, that a king may make a nobleman but he cannot make a gentleman. — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
In such a strait the wisest may well be perplexed and the boldest staggered. — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
Religious persecution may shield itself under the guise of a mistaken and over-zealous piety. — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
Among precautions against ambition, it may not be amiss to take precautions against our own. I must fairly say, I dread our… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
Contempt is not a thing to be despised. It may be borne with a calm and equal mind, but no man, by… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
A definition may be very exact, and yet go but a very little way towards informing us of the nature of the… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
The use of force alone is but temporary. It may subdue for a moment; but it does not remove the necessity of… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
Nothing in progression can rest on its original plan. We may as well think of rocking a grown man in the cradle… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
It is undoubtedly true, though it may seem paradoxical,--but, in general, those who are habitually employed in finding and displaying faults are… — 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
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
I dread our own power and our own ambition; I dread our being too much dreaded…We may say that we shall not… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
A kind Providence has placed in our breasts a hatred of the unjust and cruel, in order that we may preserve ourselves… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
Falsehood and delusion are allowed in no case whatever; but, as in the exercise of all the virtues, there is an economy… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
It is by sympathy we enter into the concerns of others, that we are moved as they are moved, and are never… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
The science of constructing a commonwealth or renovating it, or reforming it, is...not to be taught a priori...That which in the first… — 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… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
Expense, and great expense, may be an essential part in true economy. If parsimony were to be considered as one of the… — 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
Whatever is fitted in any sort to excite the ideas of pain, and danger, that is to say, whatever is in any… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
Whatever is fitted in any sort to excite the ideas of pain and danger, that is to say, whatever is in any… — 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
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
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
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
It is undoubtedly the business of ministers very much to consult the inclinations of the people, but they ought to take great… — 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
England and Ireland may flourish together. The world is large enough for both of us. Let it be our care not to… — 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
Where two motives, neither of them perfectly justifiable, may be assigned, the worst has the chance of being preferred. — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
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
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
“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
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
“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
“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
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
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
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
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
The great inlet by which a colour for oppression has entered into the world is by one man's pretending to determine concerning the happiness… — Edmund Burke Copy Share
By the disposition of a stupendous wisdom, moulding together the great mysterious incorporation of the human race, the whole, at one time, is never… — Edmund Burke Copy Share
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 upon any… — Edmund Burke Copy Share
