661 Quotes by Edmund Burke

There is nothing in the world really beneficial that does not lie within the reach of an informed understanding and a well-protected pursuit.

Unsociable humors are contracted in solitude, which will, in the end, not fail of corrupting the understanding as well as the manners, and of utterly disqualifying a man for the satisfactions and duties of life. Men must be taken as they are, and we neither make them or ourselves better by flying from or quarreling with them.

Among a people generally corrupt liberty cannot long exist.

They defend their errors as if they were defending their inheritance.

A great deal of the furniture of ancient tyranny is torn to rags; the rest is entirely out of fashion.

An entire life of solitude contradicts the purpose of our being, since death itself is scarcely an idea of more terror.

The traveller has reached the end of the journey!

We set ourselves to bite the hand that feeds us.

A jealous lover lights his torch from the firebrand of the fiend.