661 Quotes by Edmund Burke

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.

Of this stamp is the cant of, Not men, but measures.

Restraint and discipline and examples of virtue and justice. These are the things that form the education of the world.

I know of nothing sublime which is not some modification of power.

They never will love where they ought to love, who do not hate where they ought to hate.