661 Quotes by Edmund Burke

Never despair, but if you do, work in despair

Continue to instruct the world; and - whilst we carry on a poor unequal conflict with the passions and prejudices of our day, perhaps with no better weapons than other passions and prejudices of our own - convey wisdom to future generations.

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

The unbought grace of life, the cheap defence of nations, the nurse of manly sentiment and heroic enterprise isgone! it isgone, that sensibility of principle, that chastity of honour, which felt a stain like a wound, which ennobled whatever it touched, and under which vice itself lost half its evil, by losing all its grossness.

Great men are never sufficiently shown but in struggles.

In history, a great volume is unrolled for our instruction, drawing the materials of future wisdom from the past errors and infirmities of mankind.

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

The grave is a common treasury, to which we must all be taken.

They made and recorded a sort of institute and digest of anarchy, called the rights of man.