The men of England,- the men, I mean, of light and leading in England. — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
To drive men from independence to live on alms, is itself great cruelty. — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
All that needs to be done for evil to prevail is good men doing nothing. — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
This sort of people are so taken up with their theories about the rights of man that they have totally forgotten his… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
Flattery is no more than what raises in a man's mind an idea of a preference which he has not. — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
The pride of men will not often suffer reason to have scope until it can be no longer of service. — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
Oppression makes wise men mad; but the distemper is still the madness of the wise, which is better than the sobriety of… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
Nothing, indeed, but the possession of some power can with any certainty discover what at the bottom is the true character of… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
Prejudice renders a man's virtue his habit, and a series of unconnected arts. Though just prejudice, his duty becomes a part of… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
To tax and to please, no more than to love and to be wise, is not given to men. — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
Man is by his constitution a religious animal; atheism is against not only our reason, but our instincts. — 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… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
It is in the relaxation of security; it is in the expansion of prosperity; it is in the hour of dilatation of… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
Freedom without virtue is not freedom but license to pursue whatever passions prevail in the intemperate mind; man's right to freedom being… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
There is America, which at this day serves for little more than to amuse you with stories of savage men and uncouth… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
The esteem of wise and good men is the greatest of all temporal encouragements to virtue; and it is a mark of… — 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
Under the pressure of the cares and sorrows of our mortal condition, men have at all times, and in all countries, called… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
The great inlet by which a colour for oppression has entered into the world is by one man's pretending to determine concerning… — 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 liberty I mean is social freedom. It is that state of things in which liberty is secured by the equality of… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
Men are qualified for civil liberty in exact proportion to their disposition to put moral chains upon their own appetites…in proportion as… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
Virtue will catch as well as vice by contact; and the public stock of honest manly principle will daily accumulate. We are… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
By this unprincipled facility of changing the state as often, and as much, and in as many ways as there are floating… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
I find along with many virtues in my countrymen there is a jealousy, a soreness, and readiness to take offence, as if… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
Facts are to the mind what food is to the body. On the due digestion of the former depend the strength and… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
The power of discretionary disqualification by one law of Parliament, and the necessity of paying every debt of the Civil List by… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
Vice incapacitates a man from all public duty; it withers the powers of his under- standing, and makes his mind paralytic. — 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
