World Quotes by Edmund Burke

When slavery is established in any part of the world, those who are free are by far the most proud and jealous…

— Edmund Burke

A perfect democracy is therefore the most shameless thing in the world.

— Edmund Burke

A very great part of the mischiefs that vex the world arises from words.

— Edmund Burke

It is the interest of the commercial world that wealth should be found everywhere.

— Edmund Burke

There is nothing that God has judged good for us that He has not given us the means to accomplish, both in…

— Edmund Burke

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

— Edmund Burke

There is nothing in the world really beneficial that does not lie within the reach of an informed understanding and a well-protected…

— Edmund Burke

You had that action and counteraction which, in the natural and in the political world, from the reciprocal struggle of discordant powers…

— Edmund Burke

The body of all true religion consists, to be sure, in obedience to the will of the Sovereign of the world, in…

— Edmund Burke

The great inlet by which a colour for oppression has entered into the world is by one man's pretending to determine concerning…

— Edmund Burke

Religion, to have any force upon men's understandings,--indeed, to exist at all,--must be supposed paramount to law, and independent for its substance…

— Edmund Burke

There is America, which at this day serves for little more than to amuse you with stories of savage men and uncouth…

— Edmund Burke

Continue to instruct the world; and - whilst we carry on a poor unequal conflict with the passions and prejudices of our…

— Edmund Burke

The superfluities of a rich nation furnish a better object of trade than the necessities of a poor one. It is the…

— Edmund Burke

History consists, for the greater part, of the miseries brought upon the world by pride, ambition, avarice, revenge, lust, sedition, hypocrisy, ungoverned…

— 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

Refined policy ever has been the parent of confusion, and ever will be so as long as the world endures. Plain good…

— Edmund Burke

I do ride contend against the advantages of distrust. In the world we live in, it is but too necessary. Some of…

— Edmund Burke

We must soften into a credulity below the milkiness of infancy to think all men virtuous. We must be tainted with a…

— Edmund Burke

Our manners, our civilization, and all the good things connected with manners and civilization, have, in this European world of ours, depended…

— Edmund Burke

England and Ireland may flourish together. The world is large enough for both of us. Let it be our care not to…

— Edmund Burke