The tyranny of a multitude is a multiplied tyranny.
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

There is but one law for all, namely that law which governs all law, the law of our Creator, the law of humanity, justice, equity - the law of nature and of nations.
Edmund Burke

Those who don't know history are destined to repeat it.
Edmund Burke

To innovate is not to reform.
Edmund Burke

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

To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
Edmund Burke

To tax and to please, no more than to love and to be wise, is not given to men.
Edmund Burke

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

Tyrants seldom want pretexts.
Edmund Burke

Under the pressure of the cares and sorrows of our mortal condition, men have at all times, and in all countries, called in some physical aid to their moral consolations - wine, beer, opium, brandy, or tobacco.
Edmund Burke

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

Well is it known that ambition can creep as well as soar.
Edmund Burke

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

When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.
Edmund Burke

When the leaders choose to make themselves bidders at an auction of popularity, their talents, in the construction of the state, will be of no service. They will become flatterers instead of legislators; the instruments, not the guides, of the people.
Edmund Burke

Whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither, in my opinion, is safe.
Edmund Burke

Whenever our neighbour's house is on fire, it cannot be amiss for the engines to play a little on our own.
Edmund Burke

Whilst shame keeps its watch, virtue is not wholly extinguished in the heart; nor will moderation be utterly exiled from the minds of tyrants.
Edmund Burke

You can never plan the future by the past.
Edmund Burke