128 Quotations by Edmund Burke
- 41. If you can be well without health, you may be happy without virtue.
- 42. In doing good, we are generally cold, and languid, and sluggish; and of all things afraid of being t ...
- 43. In effect, to follow, not to force the public inclination; to give a direction, a form, a technical ...
- 44. In the groves of their academy, at the end of every vista, you see nothing but the gallows.
- 45. In the weakness of one kind of authority, and in the fluctuation of all, the officers of an army wil ...
- 46. In this choice of inheritance we have given to our frame of polity the image of a relation in blood; ...
- 47. It is a general popular error to suppose the loudest complainers for the public to be the most anxio ...
- 48. It is by imitation, far more than by precept, that we learn everything; and what we learn thus, we a ...
- 49. It is not what a lawyer tells me I may do; but what humanity, reason, and justice tell me I ought to ...
- 50. It is the interest of the commercial world that wealth should be found everywhere.
- 51. It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact.
- 52. It is, generally, in the season of prosperity that men discover their real temper, principles, and d ...
- 53. Kings will be tyrants from policy, when subjects are rebels from principle.
- 54. Laws, like houses, lean on one another.
- 55. Liberty must be limited in order to be possessed.
- 56. Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom; and a great empire and little minds go ill ...
- 57. Manners are of more importance than laws... Manners are what vex or soothe, corrupt or purify, exalt ...
- 58. Men are qualified for civil liberty in exact proportion to their disposition to put moral chains upo ...
- 59. Men have no right to put the well-being of the present generation wholly out of the question. Perhap ...
- 60. Mere parsimony is not economy. Expense, and great expense, may be an essential part in true economy.
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