661 Quotes by Edmund Burke

In all forms of government the people is the true legislator.

The truly sublime is always easy, and always natural.

All human laws are, properly speaking, only declaratory; they have no power over the substance of original justice.

Fellowship in treason is a bad ground of confidence.

Those who have been once intoxicated with power, and have derived any kind of emolument from it, even though but for one year, never can willingly abandon it. They may be distressed in the midst of all their power; but they will never look to anything but power for their relief.

A thing may look specious in theory, and yet be ruinous in practice; a thing may look evil in theory, and yet be in practice excellent.

There is a boundary to men's passions when they act from feelings; but none when they are under the influence of imagination.

A great empire and little minds go ill together.

Men want to be reminded, who do not want to be taught; because those original ideas of rectitude to which the mind is compelled to assent when they are proposed, are not always as present to us as they ought to be.