If any ask me what a free government is, I answer, that, for any practical purpose, it is what the people think… — 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
I am not one of those who think that the people are never in the wrong. They have been so, frequently and… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
Nothing in progression can rest on its original plan. We may as well think of rocking a grown man in the cradle… — 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
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
It is the nature of tyranny and rapacity never to learn moderation from the ill-success of first oppressions; on the contrary, all… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
We must soften into a credulity below the milkiness of infancy to think all men virtuous. We must be tainted with a… — 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
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
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
