661 Quotes by Edmund Burke

I have in general no very exalted opinion of the virtue of paper government.

History consists, for the greater part, of the miseries brought upon the world by pride, ambition, avarice, revenge, lust, sedition, hypocrisy, ungoverned zeal, and all the train of disorderly appetite.

Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones.

Refined policy ever has been the parent of confusion, and ever will be so as long as the world endures. Plain good intention, which is as easily discovered at the first view as fraud is surely detected at last, is of no mean force in the government of mankind.

I did my best. I was nervous and I just took off too fast. I didn't run a smart race. I just didn't have enough at the end. I can come back next year with a clean slate. I was glad to be beat by some good quality runners. I'll be back.

The great inlet by which a colour for oppression has entered into the world is by one man's pretending to determine concerning the happiness of another.

Depend upon it that the lovers of freedom will be free.

To be struck with His power, it is only necessary to open our eyes.

Frugality is founded on the principle that all riches have limits