661 Quotes by Edmund Burke

The question is not whether you have a right to render people miserable, but whether it is not in your best interest to make them happy.

Your representative owes you, not his industry only, but his judgment; and he betrays instead of serving you if he sacrifices it to your opinion.

Great men are the guideposts and landmarks in the state.

There is a wide difference between admiration and love. The sublime, which is the cause of the former, always dwells on great objects and terrible; the latter on small ones and pleasing; we submit to what we admire, but we love what submits to us: in one case we are forced, in the other, we are flattered, into compliance.

The little, meagre, shrivelled, hopping, though loud and troublesome insects of the hour.

Evils we have had continually calling for reformation, and reformations more grievous than any evils.

I own that there is a haughtiness and fierceness in human nature which will cause innumerable broils, place men in what situation you please.

Never, no never, did Nature say one thing, and wisdom another.

Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver.