“It is generally, in the season of prosperity that men discover their real temper, principles and design.” — 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
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
The love of lucre, though sometimes carried to a ridiculous excess, a vicious excess, is the grand cause of prosperity to all… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
No government ought to exist for the purpose of checking the prosperity of its people or to allow such a principle in… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
It is, generally, in the season of prosperity that men discover their real temper, principles, and designs. — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
Men are as much blinded by the extremes of misery as by the extremes of prosperity. — 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
