Religion is for the man in humble life, and to raise his nature, and to put him in mind of a state… — 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
In this choice of inheritance we have given to our frame of polity the image of a relation in blood; binding up… — 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
The liberty I mean is social freedom. It is that state of things in which liberty is secured by the equality of… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
Reflect how you are to govern a people who think they ought to be free, and think they are not. Your scheme… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
I dread our own power and our own ambition; I dread our being too much dreaded…We may say that we shall not… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
"War," says Machiavelli, "ought to be the only study of a prince;" and by a prince he means every sort of state,… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
By this unprincipled facility of changing the state as often, and as much, and in as many ways as there are floating… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
We are in a war of a peculiar nature. It is not with an ordinary community, which is hostile or friendly as… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
In the weakness of one kind of authority, and in the fluctuation of all, the officers of an army will remain for… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
Society is indeed a contract. Subordinate contracts for objects of mere occasional interest may be dissolved at pleasure - but the state… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
Obstinacy, sir, is certainly a great vice; and in the changeful state of political affairs it is frequently the cause of great… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
In on summer they have done their business... they have completely pulled down to the ground their monarchy, their church, their nobility,… — 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
