Edmund Burke Quotes

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Edmund Burke

Profession : Statesman

Birth : January 12, 1729

The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.

Edmund Burke

If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free; if our wealth commands us, we are poor indeed.

Edmund Burke

If you can be well without health, you may be happy without virtue.

Edmund Burke

We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.

Edmund Burke

There is but one law for all, namely that law which governs all law, the law of our Creator, the law of humanity, justice, equity - the law of nature and of nations.

Edmund Burke

Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation.

Edmund Burke

Never despair, but if you do, work on in despair.

Edmund Burke

But what is liberty without wisdom, and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils; for it is folly, vice, and madness, without tuition or restraint.

Edmund Burke

Society can overlook murder, adultery or swindling; it never forgives preaching of a new gospel.

Edmund Burke

Justice is itself the great standing policy of civil society; and any eminent departure from it, under any circumstances, lies under the suspicion of being no policy at all.

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

All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent.

Edmund Burke

Nothing is so fatal to religion as indifference.

Edmund Burke

Superstition is the religion of feeble minds.

Edmund Burke

People crushed by laws, have no hope but to evade power. If the laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to the law; and those who have most to hope and nothing to lose will always be dangerous.

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The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.

Edmund Burke

Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.

Edmund Burke

Our patience will achieve more than our force.

Edmund Burke

Ambition can creep as well as soar.

Edmund Burke

Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other.

Edmund Burke