Edmund Burke Quotes

Edmund Burke Quotes.

History is a pact between the dead, the living, and the

History is a pact between the dead, the living, and the yet unborn.
Edmund Burke
Nothing is so fatal to religion as indifference.
Edmund Burke
Circumstances give in reality to every political principle its distinguishing color and discriminating effect. The circumstances are what render every civil and political scheme beneficial or noxious to mankind.
Edmund Burke
Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones.
Edmund Burke
To innovate is not to reform.
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
We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.
Edmund Burke
Society can overlook murder, adultery or swindling; it never forgives preaching of a new gospel.
Edmund Burke
What ever disunites man from God, also disunites man from man.
Edmund Burke
Nothing turns out to be so oppressive and unjust as a feeble government.
Edmund Burke
Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation.
Edmund Burke
Whilst shame keeps its watch, virtue is not wholly extinguished in the heart; nor will moderation be utterly exiled from the minds of tyrants.
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
Adversity is a severe instructor, set over us by one who knows us better than we do ourselves.
Edmund Burke
Religious persecution may shield itself under the guise of a mistaken and over-zealous piety.
Edmund Burke
Beauty is the promise of happiness.
Edmund Burke
The first and simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind, is curiosity.
Edmund Burke