661 Quotes by Edmund Burke

It is the interest of the commercial world that wealth should be found everywhere.

The pride of men will not often suffer reason to have scope until it can be no longer of service.

Nothing tends so much to the corruption of science as to suffer it to stagnate; these waters must be troubled before they can exert their virtues.

Sallust is indisputably one of the best historians among the Romans, both for the purity of his language and the elegance of his style.

Whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither, in my opinion, is safe.

No men can act with effect who do not act in concert; no men can act in concert who do not act with confidence; no men can act with confidence who are not bound together with common opinions, common affections, and common interests.

It is better to cherish virtue and humanity, by leaving much to free will, even with some loss of the object , than to attempt to make men mere machines and instruments of political benevolence. The world on the whole will gain by a liberty, without which virtue cannot exist.

He who calls in the aid of an equal understanding doubles his own; and he who profits by a superior understanding raises his powers to a level with the height of the superior standing he unites with.

Men have no right to put the well-being of the present generation wholly out of the question. Perhaps the only moral trust with any certainty in our hands is the care of our own time.