661 Quotes by Edmund Burke

Freedom without virtue is not freedom but license to pursue whatever passions prevail in the intemperate mind; man's right to freedom being in exact proportion to his willingness to put chains upon his own appetites; the less restraint from within, the more must be imposed from without.

If we owned the property, we will be free and prosperous. If so they regain control, we will become poor

There never was a bad man that had ability for good service.

Good order is the foundation of all good things

Abstract liberty, like other mere abstractions, is not to be found.

A State without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation.

I cannot help concurring with the opinion that an absolute democracy, no more than absolute monarchy, is to be reckoned among the legitimate forms of government.

The people of England well know that the idea of inheritance furnishes a sure principle of conservation and a sure principle of transmission, without at all excluding a principle of improvement.

A very great part of the mischiefs that vex the world arises from words.