661 Quotes by Edmund Burke

The credulity of dupes is as inexhaustible as the invention of knaves.

The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.

Dangers by being despised grow great.

Futurity is the great concern of mankind.

Greater mischief happens often from folly, meanness, and vanity than from the greater sins of avarice and ambition.

He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist in our helper.

Flattery is no more than what raises in a man's mind an idea of a preference which he has not.

All men that are ruined, are ruined on the side of their natural propensities.

But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded; and the glory of Europe is extinguished forever.