661 Quotes by Edmund Burke

Parliament is a deliberative assembly of one nation.You choose a Member indeed; but when you have chosen him, heisnotthe Member for Bristol, but heisa Member of Parliament.

The only thing needed for evil to prosper is for good men to do nothing.

To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.

The individual is foolish; the multitude, for the moment is foolish, when they act without deliberation; but the species is wise, and, when time is given to it, as a species it always acts right.

Tyrants seldom want pretexts.

Man acts from adequate motives relative to his interest, and not on metaphysical speculations.

It is a general error to suppose the loudest complainers for the public to be the most anxious for its welfare

Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle which fits them all.

The body of all true religion consists, to be sure, in obedience to the will of the Sovereign of the world, in a confidence in His declarations, and in imitation of His perfections.