Edmund Burke Quotes

Education is the cheap defense of nations.
Edmund Burke

Education, Nations, Cheap

We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.
Edmund Burke

Change, Nature, Great

What ever disunites man from God, also disunites man from man.
Edmund Burke

Never despair, but if you do, work on in despair.
Edmund Burke

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

Imagination, Men, Feelings

If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free; if our wealth commands us, we are poor indeed.
Edmund Burke

Rich, Free, Poor

Toleration is good for all, or it is good for none.
Edmund Burke

Good, Toleration, None

The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedience, and by parts.
Edmund Burke

True, Liberty, Away

People crushed by laws, have no hope but to evade power. If the laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to the law; and those who have most to hope and nothing to lose will always be dangerous.
Edmund Burke

Power, Hope, Nothing

Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom; and a great empire and little minds go ill together.
Edmund Burke

Politics, Great, Wisdom

Nothing turns out to be so oppressive and unjust as a feeble government.
Edmund Burke

Government, Nothing, Unjust

Society can overlook murder, adultery or swindling; it never forgives preaching of a new gospel.
Edmund Burke

Society, Gospel, Adultery

But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded; and the glory of Europe is extinguished forever.
Edmund Burke

Age, Gone, Forever

He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper.
Edmund Burke

Skill, Nerves, Helper

Facts are to the mind what food is to the body.
Edmund Burke

Food, Mind, Body

Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver.
Edmund Burke

Both, Flattery, Corrupts

Kings will be tyrants from policy, when subjects are rebels from principle.
Edmund Burke

Policy, Principle, Kings

One that confounds good and evil is an enemy to good.
Edmund Burke

Good, Enemy, Evil

The first and simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind, is curiosity.
Edmund Burke

Mind, Human, Emotion

To make us love our country, our country ought to be lovely.
Edmund Burke

Love, Country, Lovely

Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other.
Edmund Burke

School, Learn, Mankind

It is the interest of the commercial world that wealth should be found everywhere.
Edmund Burke

Found, Wealth, Interest

If you can be well without health, you may be happy without virtue.
Edmund Burke

Health, Happy, May

Slavery is a weed that grows on every soil.
Edmund Burke

Weed, Slavery, Grows

The most important of all revolutions, a revolution in sentiments, manners and moral opinions.
Edmund Burke

Important, Revolution, Moral

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Biography

Nationality: Irish

Type: Statesman

Born: January 12, 1729

Died: July 9, 1797

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