Famous Edmund Burke Quotes
Good order is the foundation of all things.
Edmund Burke
Nobility is a graceful ornament to the civil order. It is the Corinthian capital of polished society.
Edmund Burke
There is a boundary to men's passions when they act from feelings but none when they are under the influence of imagination.
Edmund Burke
Free trade is not based on utility but on justice.
Edmund Burke
Our patience will achieve more than our force.
Edmund Burke
It is, generally, in the season of prosperity that men discover their real temper, principles, and designs.
Edmund Burke
It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact.
Edmund Burke
When bad men combine, the good must associate else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.
Edmund Burke
In a democracy, the majority of the citizens is capable of exercising the most cruel oppressions upon the minority.
Edmund Burke
But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophisters, economists, and calculators, has succeeded; and the glory of Europe is extinguished for ever.
Edmund Burke
Fraud is the ready minister of injustice.
Edmund Burke
A State without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation.
Edmund Burke
Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver.
Edmund Burke
Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.
Edmund Burke
Nothing is so fatal to religion as indifference.
Edmund Burke