Edmund Burke Quotes

Queen of arts and daughter of heaven.

A disposition to preserve and an ability to improve taken together would be my standard of a statesman.

Your representative owes you not his industry only but his judgement and he betrays instead of serving you if he sacrifices it to your opinion.

The writers against religion whilst they oppose every system are wisely careful never to set up any of their own.

A nation without the means of reform is without the means of survival.

Example is the school of mankind and they will learn at no other.

All men that are ruined are ruined on the side of their natural propensities.

What shadows we are what shadows we pursue!

You cannot plan the future by the past.

Nobody makes a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could only do a little.

A very great part of the mischiefs that vex this world arises from words.

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

There is a boundary to men's 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.