661 Quotes by Edmund Burke

True religion is the foundation of society. When that is once shaken by contempt, the whole fabric cannot be stable nor lasting.

Those who don’t know history are destined to repeat it.

Flattery is no more than what raises in a man’s mind an idea of a preference which he has not.

There is an air of plausibility which accompanies vulgar reasonings and notions, taken from the beaten circle of ordinary experience, that is admirably suited to the narrow capacities of some, and to the laziness of others.

I have been told by an eminent bookseller, that in no branch of his business, after tracts of popular devotion, were so many books as those on the law exported to the Plantations .

The unbought grace of life, the cheap defence of nations, the nurse of manly sentiment and heroic enterprise, is gone!

Men are qualified for civil liberty in exact proportion to their disposition to put moral chains upon their own appetites.

Evil succeeds when good men do nothing.

It is known that the taste – whatever it is – is improved exactly as we improve our judgment, by extending our knowledge, by a steady attention to our object, and by frequent exercise.