Edmund Burke
When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.Collection: Good
I have never yet seen any plan which has not been mended by the observations of those who were much inferior in understanding to the person who took the lead in the business.Collection: Business
Never despair, but if you do, work on in despair.Collection: Moving
Beauty in distress is much the most affecting beauty.Collection: Beauty
Nobility is a graceful ornament to the civil order. It is the Corinthian capital of polished society.Collection: Society
The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.Collection: Good
Our patience will achieve more than our force.Collection: Patience
You can never plan the future by the past.Collection: Future
Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom; and a great empire and little minds go ill together.Collection: Wisdom
I venture to say no war can be long carried on against the will of the people.Collection: War
Superstition is the religion of feeble minds.Collection: Religion
It is not what a lawyer tells me I may do; but what humanity, reason, and justice tell me I ought to do.Collection: Legal
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.Collection: Legal
We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.Collection: Great
Passion for fame: A passion which is the instinct of all great souls.Collection: Famous
It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact.Collection: Nature
Facts are to the mind what food is to the body.Collection: Food
What ever disunites man from God, also disunites man from man.Collection: God
Nothing is so fatal to religion as indifference.Collection: Religion
Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation.Collection: Religion
To tax and to please, no more than to love and to be wise, is not given to men.Collection: Men
Justice is itself the great standing policy of civil society; and any eminent departure from it, under any circumstances, lies under the suspicion of being no policy at all.Collection: Legal
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.Collection: Legal
Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny.Collection: Legal
Laws, like houses, lean on one another.Collection: Legal
All human laws are, properly speaking, only declaratory; they have no power over the substance of original justice.Collection: Power
Good order is the foundation of all things.Collection: Brainy
Beauty is the promise of happiness.Collection: Beauty
But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded; and the glory of Europe is extinguished forever.Collection: Age
No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.Collection: Fear
The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.Collection: Power
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.Collection: Wisdom
Education is the cheap defense of nations.Collection: Education
The arrogance of age must submit to be taught by youth.Collection: Age
Politics and the pulpit are terms that have little agreement.Collection: Politics
If you can be well without health, you may be happy without virtue.Collection: Health
Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.Collection: Life
All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter.Collection: Government
Society can overlook murder, adultery or swindling; it never forgives preaching of a new gospel.Collection: Society
All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent.Collection: Good
If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free; if our wealth commands us, we are poor indeed.Collection: Money
To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.Collection: Education
Liberty must be limited in order to be possessed.Collection: Freedom
The traveller has reached the end of the journey!Collection: Travel
Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows, and of lending existence to nothing.Collection: Art
Nothing turns out to be so oppressive and unjust as a feeble government.Collection: Government
There is a boundary to men's passions when they act from feelings; but none when they are under the influence of imagination.Collection: Imagination
A State without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation.Collection: Change
It is a general popular error to suppose the loudest complainers for the public to be the most anxious for its welfare.
To innovate is not to reform.