661 Quotes by Edmund Burke

Prudence is a quality incompatible with vice, and can never be effectively enlisted in its cause.

Liberty must be limited in order to be possessed.

Genuine simplicity of heart is a healing and cementing principle.

Prudence is not only the first in rank of the virtues political and moral, but she is the director and regulator, the standard of them all.

If the prudence of reserve and decorum dictates silence in some circumstances, in others prudence of a higher order may justify us in speaking our thoughts.

Nothing is so fatal to religion as indifference.

The great difference between the real leader and the pretender is that the one sees into the future, while the other regards only the present; the one lives by the day, and acts upon expediency; the other acts on enduring principles and for the immortality.

Men love to hear of their power, but have an extreme disrelish to be told their duty.

Power, in whatever hands, is rarely guilty of too strict limitations on itself.