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Political literature21 quotes
A state without some means of change is without the means of its own conservation. — Edmund Burke · 1790Make the Revolution a parent of settlement, and not a nursery of future revolutions. — Edmund Burke · 1790Because half a dozen grasshoppers under a fern make the field ring with their importunate chink, whilst thousands of great cattle, reposed beneath the shadow of the British oak, chew the cud and are silent, pray do not imagine, that those who make the noise are the only inhabitants of the field. — Edmund Burke · 1790By hating vices too much, they come to love men too little. — Edmund Burke · 1790Superstition is the religion of feeble minds. — Edmund Burke · 1790Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other. — Edmund Burke · 1796All 21 quotes →Political speech13 quotes
The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion. — Edmund Burke · 1784Parties must ever exist in a free country. — Edmund Burke · 1775Every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter. — Edmund Burke · 1775Old religious factions are volcanoes burnt out. — Edmund Burke · 1792All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter. — Edmund Burke · 1775Individuals pass like shadows; but the commonwealth is fixed and stable. — Edmund Burke · 1780All 13 quotes →Philosophical literature3 quotes
We have a degree of delight, and that no small one, in the real misfortunes and pains of others. — Edmund Burke · 1757Custom reconciles us to everything. — Edmund Burke · 1757No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear. — Edmund Burke · 1757