661 Quotes by Edmund Burke

Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants. Men have a right that these wants should be provided for by this wisdom.

Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom; and a great empire and little minds go ill together.

Curiosity is the most superficial of all the affections; it changes its object perpetually; it has an appetite which is very sharp, but very easily satisfied, and it has always an appearance of giddiness, restlessness and anxiety.

The method of teaching which approaches most nearly to the method of investigation is incomparably the best.

A perfect democracy is therefore the most shameless thing in the world.

The tyranny of the multitude is a multiplied tyranny

Teach me, O lark! with thee to greatly rise, to exalt my soul and lift it to the skies.

The most important of all revolutions, a revolution in sentiments, manners and moral opinions.

To speak of atrocious crimes in mild language is treason to virtue.