661 Quotes by Edmund Burke

Politics and the pulpit are terms that have little agreement.

Early and provident fear is the mother of safety.

Old religious factions are volcanoes burnt out.

By gnawing through a dike, even a rat may drown a nation.

A coward's courage is in his tongue.

My vigour relents. I pardon something to the spirit of liberty.

Prejudice is of ready application in the emergency; it previously engages the mind in a steady course of wisdom and virtue, and does not leave the man hesitating in the moment of decision, skeptical, puzzled and unresolved. Prejudice renders a man's virtue his habit; and not a series of unconnected acts. Through past prejudice, his duty becomes part of his nature.

No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.

As mankind becomes more enlightened to know their real interests, they will esteem the value of agriculture; they will find it in their natural--their destined occupation.