661 Quotes by Edmund Burke

People will not look forward to posterity who never look backward to their ancestors.

The human mind is often, and I think it is for the most part, in a state neither of pain nor pleasure, which I call a state of indifference.

No power so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.

The elevation of mind to be derived from fear will never make a nation glorious.

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

Those who don't know history are doomed to repeat it.

The effect of liberty to individuals is that they may do what they please; we ought to see what it will please them to do, before we risk congratulations which may be soon turned into complaints.

The nature of things is, I admit, a sturdy adversary.

It is our ignorance of things that causes all our admiration and chiefly excites our passions.