Quotes By Edmund Burke

The march of the human mind is slow.

Ambition can creep as well as soar.

Nothing is so fatal to religion as indifference.

All that's necessary for the forces of evil to win in the world is for enough good men to do nothing.

A spirit of innovation is generally the result of a selfish temper and confined views. People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors.

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

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

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

People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors.

The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedience, and by parts.

It is, generally, in the season of prosperity that men discover their real temper, principles, and designs.

Whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither, in my opinion, is safe.

Society can overlook murder, adultery or swindling; it never forgives preaching of a new gospel.

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

All human laws are, properly speaking, only declaratory; they have no power over the substance of original justice.

Those who don't know history are destined to repeat it.

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

Frugality is founded on the principal that all riches have limits.

He that struggles with us strengthens our nerves, and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper.

The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.

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

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

Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny.

Good order is the foundation of all things.

Our patience will achieve more than our force.

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

The traveller has reached the end of the journey!

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

He had no failings which were not owing to a noble cause; to an ardent, generous, perhaps an immoderate passion for fame; a passion which is the instinct of all great souls.

Superstition is the religion of feeble minds.