128 Quotations by Edmund Burke
- 101. The use of force alone is but temporary. It may subdue for a moment; but it does not remove the nece ...
- 102. The wise determine from the gravity of the case; the irritable, from sensibility to oppression; the ...
- 103. The yielding of the weak is the concession to fear.
- 104. There is a boundary to men's passions when they act from feelings; but none when they are under the ...
- 105. There is a courageous wisdom; there is also a false reptile prudence, the result, not of caution, bu ...
- 106. There is a limit at which forbearance ceases to be a virtue.
- 107. There is but one law for all, namely that law which governs all law, the law of our Creator, the law ...
- 108. There is nothing that God has judged good for us that He has not given us the means to accomplish, b ...
- 109. They defend their errors as if they were defending their inheritance.
- 110. Those who have been once intoxicated with power, and have derived any kind of emolument from it, eve ...
- 111. To innovate is not to reform.
- 112. To make us love our country, our country ought to be lovely.
- 113. To tax and to please, no more than to love and to be wise, is not given to men.
- 114. Toleration is good for all, or it is good for none.
- 115. Tyrants seldom want pretexts.
- 116. Under the pressure of the cares and sorrows of our mortal condition, men have at all times, and in a ...
- 117. We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.
- 118. We must not always judge of the generality of the opinion by the noise of the acclamation.
- 119. What ever disunites man from God, also disunites man from man.
- 120. When ancient opinions and rules of life are taken away, the loss cannot possibly be estimated. From ...
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