Famous Edmund Burke Quotes
Nobility is a graceful ornament to the civil order. It is the Corinthian capital of polished society.
Edmund Burke
Our patience will achieve more than our force.
Edmund Burke
Good order is the foundation of all things.
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
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
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
