661 Quotes by Edmund Burke

Nothing so effectually deadens the taste of the sublime as that which is light and radiant.

The march of the human mind is slow.

History is a pact between the dead, the living, and the yet unborn.

Law and arbitrary power are at eternal enmity.

Hypocrisy is no cheap vice; nor can our natural temper be masked for many years together.

It is, generally, in the season of prosperity that men discover their real temper, principles, and designs.

Ambition can creep as well as soar.

To drive men from independence to live on alms, is itself great cruelty.

Jacobinism is the revolt of the enterprising talents of a country against its property.