A populace never rebels from passion for attack, but from impatience of suffering. — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
“It is our ignorance of things that causes all our admiration and chiefly excites our passions.” — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
Passion for fame: A passion which is the instinct of all great souls. — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear. — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
Poetry, with all its obscurity, has a more general as well as a more powerful dominion over the passions than the art… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
The person who grieves suffers his passion to grow upon him; he indulges it, he loves it; but this never happens in… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
He had no failings which were not owing to a noble cause; to an ardent, generous, perhaps an immoderate passion for fame;… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
Continue to instruct the world; and - whilst we carry on a poor unequal conflict with the passions and prejudices of our… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
In doing good, we are generally cold, and languid, and sluggish; and of all things afraid of being too much in the… — 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
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
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
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
