661 Quotes by Edmund Burke

Is it in destroying and pulling down that skill is displayed? The shallowest understanding, the rudest hand, is more than equal to that task.

He that struggles with us strengthens our nerves, and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper.

There is a courageous wisdom; there is also a false, reptile prudence, the result not of caution but of fear.

When any work seems to have required immense force and labor to effect it, the idea is grand.

Young man, there is America, which at this day serves for little more than to amuse you with stories of savage men and uncouth manners.

As to great and commanding talents, they are the gift of Providence in some way unknown to us, they rise where they are least expected; they fail when everything seems disposed to produce them, or at least to call them forth.

What ever disunites man from God, also disunites man from man.

Party is a body of men united, for promoting by their joint endeavours the national interest, upon some particular principle in which they are all agreed.

A people who are still, as it were, but in the gristle, and not yet hardened into the bone of manhood.