661 Quotes by Edmund Burke

The writers against religion, whilst they oppose every system, are wisely careful never to set up any of their own.

These gentle historians, on the contrary, dip their pens in nothing but the milk of human kindness.

The person who grieves suffers his passion to grow upon him; he indulges it, he loves it; but this never happens in the case of actual pain, which no man ever willingly endured for any considerable time.

It is by bribing, not so often by being bribed, that wicked politicians bring ruin on mankind. Avarice is a rival to the pursuits of many.

Government is the exercise of all the great qualities of the human mind.

The concessions of the weak are the concessions of fear.

Our manners, our civilization, and all the good things connected with manners and civilization, have, in this European world of ours, depended for ages upon two principles: I mean the spirit of a gentleman, and the spirit of religion.

A nation without the means of reform is without the means of survival

Mere parsimony is not economy. Expense, and great expense, may be an essential part in true economy.