661 Quotes by Edmund Burke

General rebellions and revolts of a whole people never were encouraged now or at any time. They are always provoked.

Surely the church is a place where one day's truce ought to be allowed to the dissensions and animosities of mankind.

Men are as much blinded by the extremes of misery as by the extremes of prosperity.

All the forces of darkness need to succeed ... is for the people to do nothing.

When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall, one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle

Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants.

Nothing turns out to be so oppressive and unjust as a feeble government.

People crushed by law, have no hopes but from power. If laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to laws; and those who have much hope and nothing to lose, will always be dangerous.

Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver; and adulation is not of more service to the people than to kings.