It is the interest of the commercial world that wealth should be found everywhere. — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
People must be taken as they are, and we should never try make them or ourselves better by quarreling with them. — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
I take toleration to be a part of religion. I do not know which I would sacrifice; I would keep them both:… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
You will not think it unnatural that those who have an object depending, which strongly engages their hopes and fears, should be… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
I have not yet lost a feeling of wonder, and of delight, that the delicate motion should reside in all the things… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
The superfluities of a rich nation furnish a better object of trade than the necessities of a poor one. It is the… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
The blood of man should never be shed but to redeem the blood of man. It is well shed for our family,… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
The only kind of sublimity which a painter or sculptor should aim at is to express by certain proportions and positions of… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
Knowledge of those unalterable Relations which Providence has ordained that every thing should bear to every other...To these we should conform in… — 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
