128 Quotations by Edmund Burke
- 1. A disposition to preserve, and an ability to improve, taken together, would be my standard of a stat ...
- 2. A man who works beyond the surface of things, though he may be wrong himself, yet he clears the way ...
- 3. A nation is not conquered which is perpetually to be conquered.
- 4. A people who are still, as it were, but in the gristle, and not yet hardened into the bone of manhoo ...
- 5. A populace never rebels from passion for attack, but from impatience of suffering.
- 6. A state without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation.
- 7. Adversity is a severe instructor, set over us by one who knows us better than we do ourselves, as he ...
- 8. All government -- indeed, every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue and every prudent act -- i ...
- 9. All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is fo ...
- 10. All men that are ruined, are ruined on the side of their natural propensities.
- 11. All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing.
- 12. Ambition can creep as well as soar.
- 13. Among a people generally corrupt, liberty cannot long exist.
- 14. Among precautions against ambition, it may not be amiss to take precautions against our own. I must ...
- 15. An event has happened, upon which it is difficult to speak, and impossible to be silent.
- 16. And having looked to government for bread, on the very first scarcity they will turn and bite the ha ...
- 17. Applaud us when we run, Console us when we fall, Cheer us when we recover.
- 18. Bad law is the worst sort of tyranny.
- 19. Bad laws are the worst form of tyranny.
- 20. Better be despised for too anxious apprehensions, than ruined by too confident security.
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