661 Quotes by Edmund Burke

"Those who attempt to level never equalize"

"There is nothing that God has judged good for us that He has not given us the means to accomplish, both in the natural and the moral world."

"I take toleration to be a part of religion. I do not know which I would sacrifice; I would keep them both: it is not necessary that I should sacrifice either."

"Evil succeeds when good men do nothing"

"In such a strait the wisest may well be perplexed and the boldest staggered."

"The worthy gentleman who has been snatched from us at the moment of the election, and in the middle of the contest, whilst his desires were as warm and his hopes as eager as ours, has feelingly told us what shadows we are, and what shadows we pursue."

"All wealth is power, so power must infallibly draw wealth to itself by some means or other."

"It has all the contortions of the sibyl without the inspiration."

"Responsibility prevents crimes."

"I dread our own power and our own ambition; I dread our being too much dreaded....We may say that we shall not abuse this astonishing and hitherto unheard-of-power. But every other nation will think we shall abuse it. It is impossible but that, sooner or later, this state of things must produce a combination against us which may end in our ruin."