Selected quotes · 19
№ 01
“All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter.”
Edmund BurkeCreativity
№ 02
“We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.”
Edmund BurkeJustice
№ 03
“If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free; if our wealth commands us, we are poor indeed.”
Edmund BurkeFreedom
№ 04
“The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.”
Edmund BurkeWisdom
№ 05
“Our patience will achieve more than our force.”
Edmund BurkeFreedom
№ 06
“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 BurkeFreedom
№ 07
“The arrogance of age must submit to be taught by youth.”
Edmund BurkeHumility
№ 08
“Liberty must be limited in order to be possessed.”
Edmund BurkeFreedom
№ 09
“When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.”
Edmund BurkeFailure
№ 10
“No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.”
Edmund BurkeCourage
№ 11
“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.”
Edmund BurkeFreedom
№ 12
“To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.”
Edmund BurkeWisdom
№ 13
“Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.”
Edmund BurkeFailure
№ 14
“Beauty in distress is much the most affecting beauty.”
Edmund BurkeWisdom
№ 15
“Beauty is the promise of happiness.”
Edmund BurkeHappiness
№ 16
“Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation.”
Edmund BurkeCreativity
№ 17
“Education is the cheap defense of nations.”
Edmund BurkeWisdom
№ 18
“Nothing turns out to be so oppressive and unjust as a feeble government.”
Edmund BurkeWisdom
№ 19
“The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.”
Edmund BurkeSuccess