Edmund Burke Quotes

Edmund Burke Quotes.

Liberty must be limited in order to be possessed.

Liberty must be limited in order to be possessed.
Edmund Burke
Beauty in distress is much the most affecting beauty.
Edmund Burke
Whenever our neighbour’s house is on fire, it cannot be amiss for the engines to play a little on our own.
Edmund Burke
You can never plan the future by the past.
Edmund Burke
He that struggles with us strengthens our nerves, and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper.
Edmund Burke
The first and simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind, is curiosity.
Edmund Burke
Nothing is so fatal to religion as indifference.
Edmund Burke
It is ordained in the eternal constitution of things, that men of intemperate minds cannot be free. Their passions forge their fetters.
Edmund Burke
Passion for fame: A passion which is the instinct of all great souls.
Edmund Burke
But what is liberty without wisdom, and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils; for it is folly, vice, and madness, without tuition or restraint.
Edmund Burke
I have never yet seen any plan which has not been mended by the observations of those who were much inferior in understanding to the person who took the lead in the business.
Edmund Burke
Falsehood is a perennial spring.
Edmund Burke
Education is the cheap defense of nations.
Edmund Burke
Religious persecution may shield itself under the guise of a mistaken and over-zealous piety.
Edmund Burke
Tyrants seldom want pretexts.
Edmund Burke
Free trade is not based on utility but on justice.
Edmund Burke
By gnawing through a dike, even a rat may drown a nation.
Edmund Burke

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