Time Quotes by Edmund Burke

The grand instructor, time.

— Edmund Burke

You can never plan the future by the past.

— Edmund Burke

There is a time when the hoary head of inveterate abuse will neither draw reverence nor obtain protection.

— Edmund Burke

The moment that government appears at market, the principles of the market will be subverted.

— Edmund Burke

The hottest fires in hell are reserved for those who remain neutral in times of moral crisis.

— Edmund Burke

Under the pressure of the cares and sorrows of our mortal condition, men have at all times, and in all countries, called…

— Edmund Burke

The use of force alone is but temporary. It may subdue for a moment; but it does not remove the necessity of…

— Edmund Burke

The individual is foolish; the multitude, for the moment is foolish, when they act without deliberation; but the species is wise, and,…

— Edmund Burke

General rebellions and revolts of a whole people never were encouraged now or at any time. They are always provoked.

— Edmund Burke

To complain of the age we live in, to murmur at the present possessors of power, to lament the past, to conceive…

— Edmund Burke

Too much idleness, I have observed, fills up a man's time more completely and leaves him less his own master, than any…

— Edmund Burke

The person who grieves suffers his passion to grow upon him; he indulges it, he loves it; but this never happens in…

— Edmund Burke

When a great man has some one object in view to be achieved in a given time, it may be absolutely necessary…

— Edmund Burke

The worthy gentleman who has been snatched from us at the moment of the election, and in the middle of the contest,…

— Edmund Burke

The great difference between the real leader and the pretender is that the one sees into the future, while the other regards…

— Edmund Burke

It is for the most part in our skill in manners, and in the observations of time and place and of decency…

— Edmund Burke

Prejudice is of ready application in the emergency; it previously engages the mind in a steady course of wisdom and virtue, and…

— Edmund Burke

The moment you abate anything from the full rights of men to each govern himself, and suffer any artificial positive limitation upon…

— Edmund Burke

“Man is a most unwise, and a most wise, being. The individual is foolish. The multitude, for the moment, is foolish, when…

— Edmund Burke

“. . . a nation is not an idea only of local extent, and individual momentary aggregation; but it is an idea…

— Edmund Burke

In the weakness of one kind of authority, and in the fluctuation of all, the officers of an army will remain for…

— Edmund Burke