Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows, and of lending existence to nothing.
Edmund Burke

Politics and the pulpit are terms that have little agreement.
Edmund Burke

Reading without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
Edmund Burke

Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation.
Edmund Burke

Religious persecution may shield itself under the guise of a mistaken and over-zealous piety.
Edmund Burke

Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle which fits them all.
Edmund Burke

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

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

Superstition is the religion of feeble minds.
Edmund Burke

The arrogance of age must submit to be taught by youth.
Edmund Burke

The effect of liberty to individuals is that they may do what they please: we ought to see what it will please them to do, before we risk congratulations.
Edmund Burke

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

The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.
Edmund Burke

The march of the human mind is slow.
Edmund Burke

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

The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
Edmund Burke

The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion.
Edmund Burke

The person who grieves suffers his passion to grow upon him; he indulges it, he loves it; but this never happens in the case of actual pain, which no man ever willingly endured for any considerable time.
Edmund Burke

The traveller has reached the end of the journey!
Edmund Burke

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