Edmund Burke
62 quotations
Good order is the foundation of all great things.
Our patience will achieve more than our force.
Patience will achieve more than force.
To make us love our country, our country ought to be lovely.
By gnawing through a dike, even a rat may drown a nation.
You can never plan the future by the past.
I know of nothing sublime which is not some modification of power.
Applaud us when we run, Console us when we fall, Cheer us when we recover.
A populace never rebels from passion for attack, but from impatience of suffering.
Nothing is so fatal to religion as indifference which is, at least, half infidelity.
In the groves of their academy, at the end of every vista, you see nothing but the gallows.
Early and provident fear is the mother of safety.
An event has happened, upon which it is difficult to speak, and impossible to be silent.
Slavery is a weed that grows on every soil.
It is the interest of the commercial world that wealth should be found everywhere.
We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.
A state without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation.
Superstition is the religion of feeble minds.
To tax and to please, no more than to love and to be wise, is not given to men.
Toleration is good for all, or it is good for none.
There is a limit at which forbearance ceases to be a virtue.
Tyrants seldom want pretexts.
Kings will be tyrants from policy, when subjects are rebels from principle.
What ever disunites man from God, also disunites man from man.
If you can be well without health, you may be happy without virtue.