661 Quotes by Edmund Burke

I consider how little man is, yet, in his own mind, how great. He is lord and master of all things, yet scarce can command anything.

There is no safety for honest men except by believing all possible evil of evil men.

It is the love of the people; it is their attachment to their government, from the sense of the deep stake they have in such a glorious institution, which gives you your army 168 and your navy, and infuses into both that liberal obedience, without which your army would be a base rabble, and your navy nothing but rotten timber.

Free trade is not based on utility but on justice.

Whenever government abandons law, it proclaims anarchy.

Beauty is the promise of happiness.

To complain of the age we live in, to murmur at the present possessors of power, to lament the past, to conceive extravagant hopes of the future, are the common dispositions of the greatest part of mankind.

Circumstances give in reality to every political principle its distinguishing color and discriminating effect. The circumstances are what render every civil and political scheme beneficial or noxious to mankind.

The greatest sin is to do nothing because you can only do a little.