It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact.
Edmund Burke

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

Justice is itself the great standing policy of civil society; and any eminent departure from it, under any circumstances, lies under the suspicion of being no policy at all.
Edmund Burke

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

Laws, like houses, lean on one another.
Edmund Burke

Liberty must be limited in order to be possessed.
Edmund Burke

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

Mere parsimony is not economy. Expense, and great expense, may be an essential part in true economy.
Edmund Burke

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

No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.
Edmund Burke

Nobility is a graceful ornament to the civil order. It is the Corinthian capital of polished society.
Edmund Burke

Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.
Edmund Burke

Nothing is so fatal to religion as indifference.
Edmund Burke

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

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

Our patience will achieve more than our force.
Edmund Burke

Passion for fame: A passion which is the instinct of all great souls.
Edmund Burke

Patience will achieve more than force.
Edmund Burke

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

People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors.
Edmund Burke