661 Quotes by Edmund Burke

It's extremely difficult to lead further than you have gone yourself.

Writers, especially when they act in a body and with one direction, have great influence on the public mind.

The first and simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind, is curiosity.

Society is indeed a contract. It is a partnership in all science; a partnership in all art; a partnership in every virtue, and in all perfection. As the ends of such a partnership cannot be obtained in many generations, it becomes a partnership not only between those who are living, but between those who are living, those who are dead, and those who are to be born.

The love of lucre, though sometimes carried to a ridiculous excess, a vicious excess, is the grand cause of prosperity to all States.

I do not know the method of drawing up an indictment against a whole people.

Religion is among the most powerful causes of enthusiasm.

Whenever our neighbour's house is on fire, it cannot be amiss for the engines to play a little on our own.

They [Americans] augur misgovernment at a distance and snuff the approach of tyranny in every tainted breeze.