To tax and to please, no more than to love and to be wise, is not given to men. — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
In such a strait the wisest may well be perplexed and the boldest staggered. — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
There is no safety for honest men except by believing all possible evil of evil men. — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants. — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
The esteem of wise and good men is the greatest of all temporal encouragements to virtue; and it is a mark of… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
But what is liberty without wisdom, and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils; for it is folly, vice,… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom; and a great empire and little minds go ill together. — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
The power of perpetuating our property in our families is one of the most valuable and interesting circumstances belonging to it, and… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
The wise determine from the gravity of the case; the irritable, from sensibility to oppression; the high minded, from disdain and indignation… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
The conduct of a losing party never appears right: at least it never can possess the only infallible criterion of wisdom to… — 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 the occasional… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
There is a courageous wisdom; there is also a false, reptile prudence, the result not of caution but of fear. — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
By the disposition of a stupendous wisdom, moulding together the great mysterious incorporation of the human race, the whole, at one time,… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
Whatever each man can separately do, without trespassing upon others, he has a right to do for himself; and he has a… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
Facts are to the mind what food is to the body. On the due digestion of the former depend the strength and… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
Prejudice is of ready application in the emergency; it previously engages the mind in a steady course of wisdom and virtue, and… — 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… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
“We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature, and the means perhaps of… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
Corrupt influence is itself the perennial spring of all prodigality, and of all disorder; it loads us more than millions of debt;… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
“The Levellers . . . only change and pervert the natural order of things: they load the edifice of society by setting… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
“Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants. Men have a right that these wants should be provided… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
The more accurately we search into the human mind, the stronger traces we everywhere find of his wisdom who made it. — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
In history, a great volume is unrolled for our instruction, drawing the materials of future wisdom from the past errors and infirmities… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
Oppression makes wise men mad; but the distemper is still the madness of the wise, which is better than the sobriety of… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
There is no safety for honest men, but by believing all possible evil of evil men, and by acting with promptitude, decision,… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
It is an advantage to all narrow wisdom and narrow morals that their maxims have a plausible air; and, on a cursory… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
Of all things, wisdom is the most terrified with epidemical fanaticism, because, of all enemies, it is that against which she is… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
The more accurately we search into the human mind, the stronger traces we everywhere find of the wisdom of Him who made… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
“But what is liberty without wisdom and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils; for it is folly, vice,… — 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
