Quotes by Edmund Burke

A State without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation.

Nobility is a graceful ornament to the civil order. It is the Corinthian capital of polished society.

It is not what a lawyer tells me I may do; but what humanity, reason, and justice tell me I ought to do.

Laws, like houses, lean on one another.

Liberty must be limited in order to be possessed.

“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. Those who know what virtuous liberty is, cannot bear to see it disgraced by incapable heads, on account of their having high-sounding words in their mouths.”

“Woman is not made to be the admiration of all, but the happiness of one.”