Hypocrisy is no cheap vice; nor can our natural temper be masked for many years together. — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
All men that are ruined, are ruined on the side of their natural propensities. — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
If any ask me what a free government is, I answer, that, for any practical purpose, it is what the people think… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
There is nothing that God has judged good for us that He has not given us the means to accomplish, both in… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
As mankind becomes more enlightened to know their real interests, they will esteem the value of agriculture; they will find it in… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
You had that action and counteraction which, in the natural and in the political world, from the reciprocal struggle of discordant powers… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
In general the languages of most unpolished people have a great force and energy of expression; and this is but natural. Uncultivated… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
The power of perpetuating our property in our families is one of the most valuable and interesting circumstances belonging to it, 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
