661 Quotes by Edmund Burke

Liberty does not exist in the absence of morality.

In a free country every man thinks he has a concern in all public matters,--that he has a right to form and a right to deliver an opinion on them. This it is that fills countries with men of ability in all stations.

If the grain were separated from the chaff, which fills the works of our national poets, what is truly valuable would be to what is useless in the proportion of a molehill to a mountain

Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation.

Those who quit their proper character to assume what does not belong to them are, for the greater part, ignorant both of the character they leave and of the character they assume.

Frugality is founded on the principal that all riches have limits.

Turn over a new leaf.

Laws, like houses, lean on one another.

It is in the relaxation of security; it is in the expansion of prosperity; it is in the hour of dilatation of the heart, and of its softening into festivity and pleasure, that the real character of men is discerned.