Quotes by Edmund Burke

Beauty is the promise of happiness.

Facts are to the mind what food is to the body.

Nothing is so fatal to religion as indifference.

Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation.

All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent.

The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.

What ever disunites man from God, also disunites man from man.

It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact.

The traveller has reached the end of the journey!

Beauty in distress is much the most affecting beauty.

There is a boundary to mens passions when they act from feelings but none when they are under the influence of imagination.

Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom and a great empire and little minds go ill together.

Nothing turns out to be so oppressive and unjust as a feeble government.

All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter.

If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free; if our wealth commands us, we are poor indeed.

To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.

Education is the cheap defense of nations.

But what is liberty without wisdom, and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils; for it is folly, vice, and madness, without tuition or restraint.

Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows, and of lending existence to nothing.

Under the pressure of the cares and sorrows of our mortal condition, men have at all times, and in all countries, called in some physical aid to their moral consolations - wine, beer, opium, brandy, or tobacco.