Power gradually extirpates for the mind every humane and gentle virtue. — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
Power gradually extirpates from the mind every humane and gentle virtue. — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
Those who have been intoxicated with power... can never willingly abandon it. — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
Power, in whatever hands, is rarely guilty of too strict limitations on itself. — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
“No power so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.” — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
All wealth is power, so power must infallibly draw wealth to itself by some means or other. — 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
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
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
People crushed by law, have no hopes but from power. If laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to laws; and… — 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
People crushed by laws, have no hope but to evade power. If the laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to… — 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
He who calls in the aid of an equal understanding doubles his own; and he who profits by a superior understanding raises… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
To govern according to the sense and agreement of the interests of the people is a great and glorious object of governance.… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
For as wealth is power, so all power will infallibly draw wealth to itself by some means or other; and when men… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
All persons possessing any portion of power ought to be strongly and awfully impressed with an idea that they act in trust,… — 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
“We are so little affected by things which are habitual, that we consider this idea of the decision of a majority as… — 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
Corrupt influence is itself the perennial spring of all prodigality, and of all disorder; it loads us more than millions of debt;… — 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
