Men love to hear of their power, but have an extreme disrelish to be told their duty. — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
Whatever each man can separately do, without trespassing upon others, he has a right to do for himself; and he has a… — 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
There are some men formed with feelings so blunt that they can hardly be said to be awake during the whole course… — 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
They made and recorded a sort of institute and digest of anarchy, called the rights of man. — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
Turbulent, discontented men of quality, in proportion as they are puffed up with personal pride and arrogance, generally despise their own order. — 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
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
There are cases in which a man would be ashamed not to have been imposed upon. There is a confidence necessary to… — 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
Men who undertake considerable things, even in a regular way, ought to give us ground to presume ability. — 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
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
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
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
When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle. — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
The poorest being that crawls on earth, contending to save itself from injustice and oppression, is an object respectable in the eyes… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
To drive men from independence to live on alms, is itself great cruelty. — 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
To tax and to please, no more than to love and to be wise, is not given to men. — 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
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
