What is it we all seek for in an election? To answer its real purposes, you must first possess the means of… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
The great difference between the real leader and the pretender is that the one sees into the future, while the other regards… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
The science of constructing a commonwealth, or renovating it, or reforming it, is, like every other experimental science, not to be taught… — 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
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
All those instances to be found in history, whether real or fabulous, of a doubtful public spirit, at which morality is perplexed,… — 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
I am convinced that we have a degree of delight, and that no small one, in the real misfortunes and pain of… — 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
