Power Quotes by Edmund Burke

The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.

— Edmund Burke

Power, in whatever hands, is rarely guilty of too strict limitations on itself.

— Edmund Burke

Power gradually extirpates for the mind every humane and gentle virtue.

— Edmund Burke

Power gradually extirpates from the mind every humane and gentle virtue.

— Edmund Burke

I know of nothing sublime which is not some modification of power.

— Edmund Burke

Law and arbitrary power are at eternal enmity

— Edmund Burke

Those who have been intoxicated with power... can never willingly abandon it.

— Edmund Burke

Vice incapacitates a man from all public duty; it withers the powers of his under- standing, and makes his mind paralytic.

— Edmund Burke

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

“No power so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.”

— Edmund Burke

Nothing, indeed, but the possession of some power can with any certainty discover what at the bottom is the true character of…

— Edmund Burke

All wealth is power, so power must infallibly draw wealth to itself by some means or other.

— Edmund Burke

He who calls in the aid of an equal understanding doubles his own; and he who profits by a superior understanding raises…

— Edmund Burke

To govern according to the sense and agreement of the interests of the people is a great and glorious object of governance.…

— Edmund Burke

Among precautions against ambition, it may not be amiss to take precautions against our own. I must fairly say, I dread our…

— Edmund Burke

Those who have been once intoxicated with power, and have derived any kind of emolument from it, even though but for one…

— Edmund Burke

People crushed by laws, have no hope but to evade power. If the laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to…

— Edmund Burke

All persons possessing any portion of power ought to be strongly and awfully impressed with an idea that they act in trust,…

— Edmund Burke

Corrupt influence is itself the perennial spring of all prodigality, and of all disorder; it loads us more than millions of debt;…

— Edmund Burke

The power of perpetuating our property in our families is one of the most valuable and interesting circumstances belonging to it, and…

— Edmund Burke

The power of perpetuating our property in our families is one of the most valuable and interesting circumstances belonging to it, and…

— Edmund Burke

“We are so little affected by things which are habitual, that we consider this idea of the decision of a majority as…

— Edmund Burke

For as wealth is power, so all power will infallibly draw wealth to itself by some means or other; and when men…

— Edmund Burke

People crushed by law, have no hopes but from power. If laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to laws; and…

— Edmund Burke