Edmund Burke Famous Quotes
Our patience will achieve more than our force.
There is a boundary to men's passions when they act from feelings but none when they are under the influence of imagination.
The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
You can never plan the future by the past.
"Whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither, in my opinion, is safe."
"When bad men combine, the good must associate else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle."
"All government -- indeed, every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue and every prudent act -- is founded on compromise and barter."
He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist in our helper.
"The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedients, and by parts."
We must not always judge of the generality of the opinion by the noise of the acclamation.
Nobility is a graceful ornament to the civil order. It is the Corinthian capital of polished society.
All that is necessary for the forces of evil to win in the world is for enough good men to do nothing.
Good order is the foundation of all things.
There is no safety for honest men but by believing all possible evil of evil men.
The only infallible criterion of wisdom to vulgar minds -- success.
"Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants. Men have right that these wants should be provided for, including the want of a sufficient restraint upon their passions."
"History is a pact between the dead, the living, and the yet unborn."
"Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other."
"An event has happened, upon which it is difficult to speak, and impossible to be silent."
We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.
"Toleration is good for all, or it is good for none."
Ambition can creep as well as soar.
No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.
I thought ten thousand swords must have leaped from their scabbards to avenge even a look that threatened her with insult. But the age of chivalry is gone.
"Never despair but if you do, work on in despair."
All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing.
It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact.
"The wise determine from the gravity of the case the irritable, from sensibility to oppression the high minded, from disdain and indignation at abusive power in unworthy hands."
"Better be despised for too anxious apprehensions, than ruined by too confident security."
Edmund Burke Quotations
"When your dreams tire, they go underground and out of kindness that's where they stay."
Libby Houston
"I imagine, therefore I belong and am free."
Emily Elizabeth Dickinson
We know the worth of a thing when we have lost it.
French Proverb
"A good word is an easy obligation but not to speak ill, requires only our silence, which costs nothing."
John Tillotson
A great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.
Albert Schweitzer
"Just as bees will swarm about to protect their nest, so will I 'swarm about' to protect my nest of chocolate eggs."
Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
"What if everything is an illusion and nothing exists In that case, I definitely overpaid for my carpet."
Woody Allen
Poetry the best words in the best order.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
"The finest qualities of our nature, like the bloom on fruits, can be preserved only by the most delicate handling. Yet we do not treat ourselves nor one another thus tenderly."
Henry David Thoreau
History is littered with the wars which everybody knew would never happen.
Enoch Powell