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

Falsehood is a perennial spring.
Edmund Burke

Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver.
Edmund Burke

Free trade is not based on utility but on justice.
Edmund Burke

Frugality is founded on the principal that all riches have limits.
Edmund Burke

Good order is the foundation of all things.
Edmund Burke

He had no failings which were not owing to a noble cause; to an ardent, generous, perhaps an immoderate passion for fame; a passion which is the instinct of all great souls.
Edmund Burke

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

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

Hypocrisy can afford to be magnificent in its promises, for never intending to go beyond promise, it costs nothing.
Edmund Burke

I have never yet seen any plan which has not been mended by the observations of those who were much inferior in understanding to the person who took the lead in the business.
Edmund Burke

I venture to say no war can be long carried on against the will of the people.
Edmund Burke

If the people are happy, united, wealthy, and powerful, we presume the rest. We conclude that to be good from whence good is derived.
Edmund Burke

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

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

In a democracy, the majority of the citizens is capable of exercising the most cruel oppressions upon the minority.
Edmund Burke

In effect, to follow, not to force the public inclination; to give a direction, a form, a technical dress, and a specific sanction, to the general sense of the community, is the true end of legislature.
Edmund Burke

It is a general popular error to suppose the loudest complainers for the public to be the most anxious for its welfare.
Edmund Burke

It is not what a lawyer tells me I may do; but what humanity, reason, and justice tell me I ought to do.
Edmund Burke

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