Those who don't know history are destined to repeat it. Edmund Burke Irish Statesman More Edmund Burke Quotes 7
The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse. Edmund Burke Irish Statesman More Edmund Burke Quotes 5
Facts are to the mind what food is to the body. Edmund Burke Irish Statesman More Edmund Burke Quotes 5
Nothing is so fatal to religion as indifference. Edmund Burke Irish Statesman More Edmund Burke Quotes 4
To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting. Edmund Burke Irish Statesman More Edmund Burke Quotes 3
Toleration is good for all, or it is good for none. Edmund Burke Irish Statesman More Edmund Burke Quotes 1
No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear. Edmund Burke Irish Statesman More Edmund Burke Quotes 1
Our patience will achieve more than our force. Edmund Burke Irish Statesman More Edmund Burke Quotes 1
The arrogance of age must submit to be taught by youth. Edmund Burke Irish Statesman More Edmund Burke Quotes 1
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. Edmund Burke Irish Statesman More Edmund Burke Quotes 1
When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle. Edmund Burke Irish Statesman More Edmund Burke Quotes 1
When the leaders choose to make themselves bidders at an auction of popularity, their talents, in the construction of the state, will be of no service. They will become flatterers instead of legislators; the instruments, not the guides, of the people. Edmund Burke Irish Statesman More Edmund Burke Quotes 1
He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist in our helper. Edmund Burke British Statesman More Edmund Burke Quotes 1
To make us love our country, our country ought to be lovely. Edmund Burke Irish Statesman More Edmund Burke Quotes 1
Manners are of more importance than laws... Manners are what vex or soothe, corrupt or purify, exalt or debase, barbarize or refine us, by a constant, steady, uniform, insensible operation, like that of the air we breathe in. Edmund Burke British Statesman More Edmund Burke Quotes 0
Adversity is a severe instructor, set over us by one who knows us better than we do ourselves, as he loves us better too. He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper. This conflict with difficu. Edmund Burke British Statesman More Edmund Burke Quotes 0
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. Edmund Burke British Statesman More Edmund Burke Quotes 0
That the greatest security of the people, against the encroachments and usurpations of their superiors, is to keep the Spirit of Liberty constantly awake, is an undeniable truth. Edmund Burke British Statesman More Edmund Burke Quotes 0
Whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither, in my opinion, is safe. Edmund Burke Irish Statesman More Edmund Burke Quotes 0
Whenever our neighbour's house is on fire, it cannot be amiss for the engines to play a little on our own. Edmund Burke Irish Statesman More Edmund Burke Quotes 0