Famous Quotes / Edmund Burke
128 Quotations by Edmund Burke
- 61. Never despair, but if you do, work on in despair.
- 62. Never despair; but if you do, work on in despair.
- 63. No one could make a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.
- 64. No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.
- 65. Nobility is a graceful ornament to the civil order. It is the Corinthian capital of polished society ...
- 66. Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could only do a little.
- 67. Nobody makes a greater mistake than he who does nothing because he could only do a little.
- 68. Nothing is so fatal to religion as indifference which is, at least, half infidelity.
- 69. Nothing turns out to be so oppressive and unjust as a feeble government.
- 70. Our patience will achieve more than our force.
- 71. Parliament is not a congress of ambassadors from different and hostile interests; which interests ea ...
- 72. Passion for fame: A passion which is the instinct of all great souls.
- 73. Passion for fame: A passion which is the instinct of all great souls.
- 74. Passion for fame: A passion which is the instinct of all great souls.
- 75. People crushed by laws, have no hope but to evade power. If the laws are their enemies, they will be ...
- 76. People must be taken as they are, and we should never try make them or ourselves better by quarrelin ...
- 77. People will not look forward to posterity who will not look backward to their ancestors.
- 78. People will not look forward to posterity who will not look backward to their ancestors.
- 79. Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creatio ...
- 80. Restraint and discipline and examples of virtue and justice; these are the things that form the educ ...