Edmund Burke Quotes

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Next to love, sympathy is the divinest passion of the human heart.
- Edmund Burke

Early and provident fear is the mother of safety.
- Edmund Burke

Gaming is a principle inherent in human nature.
- Edmund Burke

You can never plan the future by the past.
- Edmund Burke

What shame keeps its watch, virtue is not wholly extinguished in the heart.
- Edmund Burke

If you can be well without health, you may be happy without virtue.
- Edmund Burke

All human laws are, properly speaking, only declaratory; they have no power over the substance of original justice.
- Edmund Burke

Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny.
- Edmund Burke

Hypocrisy can afford to be magnificent in its promises, for never intending to go beyond promise, it costs nothing.
- Edmund Burke

Example is the school of mankind and they will learn at no other.
- Edmund Burke

Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows.
- Edmund Burke

Our patience will achieve more than our force.
- Edmund Burke

Patience will achieve more than force.
- Edmund Burke

Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.
- Edmund Burke

The march of the human mind is slow.
- Edmund Burke

It is a general popular error to suppose the loudest complainers for the public to be the most anxious for its welfare.
- Edmund Burke

Reading without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
- Edmund Burke

We must not always judge of the generality of the opinion by the noise of the acclamation.
- Edmund Burke

True humility the basis of the Christian system—is the low but deep and firm foundation of all virtues.
- Edmund Burke

The first and simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind, is curiosity.
- Edmund Burke

To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
- Edmund Burke

The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good people to do nothing.
- Edmund Burke

Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants.
- Edmund Burke

Not men but measures a sort of charm by which many people get loose from every honorable engagement.
- Edmund Burke

The wisdom of our ancestors.
- Edmund Burke