Virtue Quotes by Edmund Burke

That cardinal virtue, temperance.

— Edmund Burke

All virtue which is impracticable is spurious.

— Edmund Burke

Vice itself lost half its evil, by losing all its grossness.

— Edmund Burke

To speak of atrocious crime in mild language is treason to virtue.

— Edmund Burke

Economy is a distributive virtue, and consists not in saving but in selection.

— Edmund Burke

Power gradually extirpates for the mind every humane and gentle virtue.

— Edmund Burke

The great must submit to the dominion of prudence and of virtue, or none will long submit to the dominion of thegreat.

— Edmund Burke

The great must submit to the dominion of prudence and of virtue, or none will long submit to the dominion of the…

— Edmund Burke

Power gradually extirpates from the mind every humane and gentle virtue.

— Edmund Burke

True humility-the basis of the Christian system-is the low but deep and firm foundation of all virtues.

— Edmund Burke

Restraint and discipline and examples of virtue and justice. These are the things that form the education of the world.

— Edmund Burke

Nnothing tends more to the corruption of science than to suffer it to stagnate. These waters must be troubled, before they can…

— Edmund Burke

The esteem of wise and good men is the greatest of all temporal encouragements to virtue; and it is a mark of…

— Edmund Burke

Society is indeed a contract. ... It is a partnership in all science; a partnership in all art; a partnership in every…

— Edmund Burke

But what is liberty without wisdom, and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils; for it is folly, vice,…

— Edmund Burke

Nothing tends so much to the corruption of science as to suffer it to stagnate; these waters must be troubled before they…

— Edmund Burke

Prejudice renders a man's virtue his habit, and a series of unconnected arts. Though just prejudice, his duty becomes a part of…

— Edmund Burke

Falsehood and delusion are allowed in no case whatever; but, as in the exercise of all the virtues, there is an economy…

— Edmund Burke

The only liberty that is valuable is a liberty connected with order; that not only exists along with order and virtue, but…

— Edmund Burke

Obstinacy, sir, is certainly a great vice; and in the changeful state of political affairs it is frequently the cause of great…

— Edmund Burke

Virtue will catch as well as vice by contact; and the public stock of honest manly principle will daily accumulate. We are…

— Edmund Burke

Freedom without virtue is not freedom but license to pursue whatever passions prevail in the intemperate mind; man's right to freedom being…

— Edmund Burke

I do not hesitate to say that the road to eminence and power, from an obscure condition, ought not to be made…

— Edmund Burke

“But what is liberty without wisdom and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils; for it is folly, vice,…

— Edmund Burke

The distinguishing part of our constitution is its liberty. To preserve that liberty inviolate, is the peculiar duty and proper trust of…

— 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

It is better to cherish virtue and humanity, by leaving much to free will, even with some loss of the object ,…

— Edmund Burke

I find along with many virtues in my countrymen there is a jealousy, a soreness, and readiness to take offence, as if…

— Edmund Burke

“. . . you would have had a protected, satisfied, laborious, and obedient people, taught to seek and to recognize the happiness…

— Edmund Burke

If you can be well without health, you may be happy without virtue.

— Edmund Burke

All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter.

— Edmund Burke

Economy is a distributive virtue, and consists not in saving but selection. Parsimony requires no providence, no sagacity, no powers of combination,…

— Edmund Burke

Prudence is not only the first in rank of the virtues political and moral, but she is the director and regulator, the…

— Edmund Burke

Whilst shame keeps its watch, virtue is not wholly extinguished in the heart; nor will moderation be utterly exiled from the minds…

— Edmund Burke

Religion is for the man in humble life, and to raise his nature, and to put him in mind of a state…

— Edmund Burke

What is liberty without...virtue? It is...madness, without restraint. Men are qualified for liberty in exact proportion to their disposition to put moral…

— Edmund Burke

Taste and elegance, though they are reckoned only among the smaller and secondary morals, yet are of no mean importance in the…

— Edmund Burke

Expense, and great expense, may be an essential part in true economy. If parsimony were to be considered as one of the…

— Edmund Burke

The power of perpetuating our property in our families is one of the most valuable and interesting circumstances belonging to it, and…

— Edmund Burke

Society is indeed a contract. It is a partnership in all science; a partnership in all art; a partnership in every virtue,…

— Edmund Burke