661 Quotes by Edmund Burke

All That Is Needed For Evil To Succeeded, Is For Good People To Do Nothing.

If we owned the property, we will be free and prosperous. If so they regain control, we will become poor.

Surely the church is a place where one day’s truce ought to be allowed to the dissensions and animosities of mankind.

The contumelies of tyranny are the worst parts of it.

The mind of man possesses a sort of creative power on its own; either in representing at pleasure the images of things in the order and manner in which they were received by the senses, or in combining those images in a new manner, and according to a different order. This power is called imagination.

Too much idleness, I have observed, fills up a man’s time more completely and leaves him less his own master, than any sort of employment whatsoever.

A man full of warm speculative benevolence may wish his society otherwise constituted than he finds it; but a good patriot and a true politician, always considers how he shall make the most of the existing materials of his country. A disposition to preserve, and an ability to improve, taken together, would be my standard of a statesman. Every thing else is vulgar in the conception, perilous in the execution.

As mankind becomes more enlightened to know their real interests, they will esteem the value of agriculture; they will find it in their natural – their destined occupation.

Society is indeed a contract... it becomes a participant not only between those who are living, those who are dead, and those who are to be born.