96 Edmund Burke Quotes - Inspirational Quotes at BrainyQuote

Irish - Statesman January 12, 1729 - July 9, 1797

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

Good Men Evil Nothing Only

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

Life Mistake Nothing Nobody

Beauty is the promise of happiness.

Beauty Happiness Promise

All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent.

Good People Tyranny Conscience Gain

The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.

Power More Dangerous Abuse

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.

Hope Power Legal People

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

Good Politics Sacrifice Struggle Men

You can never plan the future by the past.

You Future Past Never

To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.

Education Eating Like Without

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

Justice Safe Liberty Opinion

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Good order is the foundation of all things.

Good Brainy Foundation Things Order

Our patience will achieve more than our force.

Patience Will More Achieve

Your representative owes you, not his industry only, but his judgment; and he betrays instead of serving you if he sacrifices it to your opinion.

You Your Opinion Only

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

People Never Never Give Up Delusion

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

Mind Fear Passion Acting

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

Money Us Rich Free Poor

Ambition can creep as well as soar.

Ambition Well Soar Creep

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

Mind Curiosity First Human

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

Us Skill He Our

Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny.

Legal Bad Tyranny Worst Laws

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

Age Glory Economists Forever

But what is liberty without wisdom, and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils; for it is folly, vice, and madness, without tuition or restraint.

Wisdom Freedom Madness Liberty

Liberty must be limited in order to be possessed.

Freedom Liberty Must Order Limited

Education is the cheap defense of nations.

Education Cheap Defense Nations

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

Nature Change Great Law

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

People Look Will Never

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

Imagination Men Influence Feelings

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

Work You Moving On Never

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

Will School Example Mankind

Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver.

Flattery Giver Corrupts Receiver

Superstition is the religion of feeble minds.

Religion Superstition Minds Feeble

The traveller has reached the end of the journey!

Journey Travel End Reached

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

Never Nothing Go Beyond

Slavery is a weed that grows on every soil.

Slavery Soil Every Weed Grows

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

Democracy Minority Cruel Capable

Beauty in distress is much the most affecting beauty.

Beauty Much Distress Most

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

Age Youth Arrogance Must Submit

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

Love Country Us Our

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

God Man Ever Also

Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones.

Aim End Noble Weak

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