Quotes by Edmund Burke

A nation without the means of reform is without the means of survival.

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

All men that are ruined are ruined on the side of their natural propensities.

What shadows we are what shadows we pursue!

Superstition is the religion of feeble minds.

You cannot plan the future by the past.

Nobody makes a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could only do a little.

Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny.

War never leaves where it found a nation.

The wisdom of our ancestors.

A very great part of the mischiefs that vex this world arises from words.

What is the use of discussing a mans abstract right to food or medicine? The question is upon the method of procuring and administering them. In that deliberation I shall always advise to call in the aid of the farmer and the physician rather than the professor of metaphysics.

People crushed by laws, have no hope but to evade power. If the laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to the law; and those who have most to hope and nothing to lose will always be dangerous.

Good order is the foundation of all things.

Passion for fame: A passion which is the instinct of all great souls.

There is but one law for all, namely that law which governs all law, the law of our Creator, the law of humanity, justice, equity - the law of nature and of nations.

We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.

Never despair, but if you do, work on in despair.

The arrogance of age must submit to be taught by youth.

But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded; and the glory of Europe is extinguished forever.