The pride of men will not often suffer reason to have scope until it can be no longer of service. — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
It is not what a lawyer tells me I may do; but what humanity, reason, and justice tell me I ought to… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
Man is by his constitution a religious animal; atheism is against not only our reason, but our instincts. — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
Politics ought to be adjusted not to human reasonings but to human nature, of which reason is but a part and by… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
Guilt was never a rational thing; it distorts all the faculties of the human mind, it perverts them, it leaves a man… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
God has sometimes converted wickedness into madness; and it is to the credit of human reason that men who are not in… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
In a free country every man thinks he has a concern in all public matters,--that he has a right to form and… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
Parliament is a deliberate assembly of one nation, with one interest, that of the whole; where, not local purpose, not local prejudices… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
A man is allowed sufficient freedom of thought, provided he knows how to choose his subject properly.... But the scene is changed… — 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
All writers on the science of policy are agreed, and they agree with experience, that all governments must frequently infringe the rules… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
In general the languages of most unpolished people have a great force and energy of expression; and this is but natural. Uncultivated… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
Parliament is not a congress of ambassadors from different and hostile interests; which interests each must maintain, as an agent and advocate,… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
Instead of casting away all our old prejudices, we cherish them to a very considerable degree, and, to take more shame to… — 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
