Edmund Burke
62 quotations
Never despair, but if you do, work on in despair.
Mere parsimony is not economy. Expense, and great expense, may be an essential part in true economy.
Frugality is founded on the principal that all riches have limits.
The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other
It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact.
Passion for fame: A passion which is the instinct of all great souls.
No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.
Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver.
When ever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither is safe.
Ambition can creep as well as soar.
Nothing turns out to be so oppressive and unjust as a feeble government.
Great men are the guideposts and landmarks in the state.
People will not look forward to posterity who will not look backward to their ancestors.
To innovate is not to reform.
Bad laws are the worst form of tyranny.
Laws, like houses, lean on one another.
The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedience, and by parts.
Liberty must be limited in order to be possessed.
The people never give up their liberties, but under some delusion.
We must not always judge of the generality of the opinion by the noise of the acclamation.
The tyranny of a multitude is a multiplied tyranny.
A nation is not conquered which is perpetually to be conquered.
Spain: A whale stranded upon the coast of Europe.
They defend their errors as if they were defending their inheritance.