Edmund Burke Quotes

The effect of liberty on individuals is that they may do what they please: we ought to see what it will please them to do before we risk congratulations.

Edmund Burke

The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion.

Edmund Burke

By gnawing through a dyke even a rat may drown a nation.

Edmund Burke

You can never plan the future by the past.

Edmund Burke

There is a courageous wisdom there is also a false reptile prudence the result not of caution but of fear.

Edmund Burke

Queen of arts and daughter of heaven.

Edmund Burke

A disposition to preserve and an ability to improve taken together would be my standard of a statesman.

Edmund Burke

Your representative owes you not his industry only but his judgement and he betrays instead of serving you if he sacrifices it to your opinion.

Edmund Burke

Dangers by being despised grow great.

Edmund Burke

The writers against religion whilst they oppose every system are wisely careful never to set up any of their own.

Edmund Burke

Quotes by Edmund Burke

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