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Fiction lags after truth, invention is unfruitful, and imagination cold and barren. — Edmund Burke

Our patience will achieve more than our force. — Edmund Burke

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

Good company, lively conversation, and the endearments of friendship fill the mind with great pleasure. — Edmund Burke

The writers against religion, whilst they oppose every system, are wisely careful never to set up any of their own. — Edmund Burke

Neither the few nor the many have a right to act merely by their will, in any matter connected with duty, trust, engagement, or obligation. — Edmund Burke

The nature of things is, I admit, a sturdy adversary. — Edmund Burke

Pleasure of every kind quickly satisfies. — Edmund Burke

Make the Revolution a parent of settlement, and not a nursery of future revolutions. — Edmund Burke

In their nomination to office they will not appoint to the exercise of authority as to a pitiful job, but as to a holy function. — Edmund Burke

The essence of tyranny is the enforcement of stupid laws. — Edmund Burke

Oppression makes wise men mad; but the distemper is still the madness of the wise, which is better than the sobriety of fools. — Edmund Burke

He that accuses all mankind of corruption ought to remember that he is sure to convict only one. — Edmund Burke

True religion is the foundation of society. When that is once shaken by contempt, the whole fabric cannot be stable nor lasting. — Edmund Burke

Nothing is so fatal to religion as indifference. — Edmund Burke

This sort of people are so taken up with their theories about the rights of man that they have totally forgotten his nature. — Edmund Burke

Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny. — Edmund Burke

In history, a great volume is unrolled for our instruction, drawing the materials of future wisdom from the past errors and infirmities of mankind. — Edmund Burke

All wealth is power, so power must infallibly draw wealth to itself by some means or other. — Edmund Burke

All that is necessary for evil to succeed is that good men do nothing. — Edmund Burke

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

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

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

We set ourselves to bite the hand that feeds us — Edmund Burke

We begin our public affection in our families. No cold relation is a zealous citizen. — Edmund Burke

Turn over a new leaf. — Edmund Burke

The conduct of a losing party never appears right: at least it never can possess the only infallible criterion of wisdom to vulgar judgements-success. — Edmund Burke

To drive men from independence to live on alms, is itself great cruelty. — Edmund Burke

Prejudice renders a man's virtue his habit, and a series of unconnected arts. Though just prejudice, his duty becomes a part of his nature. — Edmund Burke

There is no safety for honest men except by believing all possible evil of evil men. — Edmund Burke

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

The great must submit to the dominion of prudence and of virtue, or none will long submit to the dominion of the great. — Edmund Burke

I would rather sleep in the southern corner of a little country churchyard than in the tomb of the Capulets. — Edmund Burke

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

The grand instructor, time. — Edmund Burke

In the groves of their academy, at the end of every vista, you see nothing but the gallows. — Edmund Burke

Water is insipid, inodorous, colorless and smooth. — Edmund Burke

Nothing is such an enemy to accuracy of judgment as a coarse discrimination; a want of such classification and distribution as the subject admits of. — Edmund Burke

Religion, by 'consecrating' the state, gives the people an added impetus to respect and regard their regime. — Edmund Burke

Nothing less will content me, than wholeAmerica. — Edmund Burke

Spain: A whale stranded upon the coast of Europe. — Edmund Burke

There is nothing in the world really beneficial that does not lie within the reach of an informed understanding and a well-protected pursuit. — Edmund Burke

The cause of a wrong taste is a defect of judgment. — Edmund Burke

The march of the human mind is slow. — Edmund Burke

Between craft and credulity, the voice of reason is stifled. — Edmund Burke

Wars are just to those to whom they are necessary. — Edmund Burke

Too much idleness, I have observed, fills up a man's time more completely and leaves him less his own master, than any sort of employment whatsoever — Edmund Burke

An entire life of solitude contradicts the purpose of our being, since death itself is scarcely an idea of more terror. — Edmund Burke

Man is by his constitution a religious animal. — Edmund Burke

Never apologise for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologise for the truth. — Edmund Burke

If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free. If our wealth commands us, we are poor indeed. — Edmund Burke

The perfection of conversation is not to play a regular sonata, but, like the AEolian harp, to await the inspiration of the passing breeze. — Edmund Burke

Great men are the guideposts and landmarks in the state. — Edmund Burke

Nothing ought to be more weighed than the nature of books recommended by public authority. So recommended, they soon form the character of the age. — Edmund Burke

But whoever is a genuine follower of Truth, keeps his eye steady upon his guide, indifferent whither he is led, provided that she is the leader. — Edmund Burke

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

Religion is the basis of civil society, and the source of all good and of all comfort. — 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

Where mystery begins religion ends. — Edmund Burke

A representative owes not just his industry but his judgement — Edmund Burke

Rudeness is the weak man's imitation of strength. — Edmund Burke

One source of the sublime is infinity. — Edmund Burke

All men have equal rights, but not to equal things. — Edmund Burke

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

Teach me, O lark! with thee to greatly rise, to exalt my soul and lift it to the skies. — Edmund Burke

The greatest sin is to do nothing because you can only do a little. — Edmund Burke

Better to be despised for too anxious apprehensions, than ruined by too confident a security. — Edmund Burke

All human laws are, properly speaking, only declaratory; they have no power over the substance of original justice. — Edmund Burke

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

Men are qualified for civil liberty in exact proportion to their disposition to put moral chains upon their appetites. — Edmund Burke

The Fate of good men who refuse to become involved in politics is to be ruled by evil men. — Edmund Burke

Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver, and adulation is not of more service to the people than to kings. — Edmund Burke

Society is indeed a contract ... It is a partnership in all science; a partnership in all art; a partnership in every virtue, and in all perfection. — Edmund Burke

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

A conscientious man would be cautious how he dealt in blood. — Edmund Burke

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

England and Ireland may flourish together. The world is large enough for both of us. Let it be our care not to make ourselves too little for it. — Edmund Burke

Fellowship in treason is a bad ground of confidence. — Edmund Burke

Rage and frenzy will pull down more in half an hour than prudence, deliberation, and foresight can build up in a hundred years. — Edmund Burke

A nation without means of reform is without means of survival. — Edmund Burke

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

I venture to say no war can be long carried on against the will of the people. — Edmund Burke

A populace never rebels from passion for attack, but from impatience of suffering. — Edmund Burke

All government is founded on compromise and banter. — Edmund Burke

My vigour relents. I pardon something to the spirit of liberty. — Edmund Burke

Reading without reflecting is like eating without digesting. — Edmund Burke

Nothing in progression can rest on its original plan. We may as well think of rocking a grown man in the cradle of an infant. — Edmund Burke

Woman is not made to be the admiration of all, but the happiness of one. — Edmund Burke

He only deserves to be remembered by posterity who treasures up and preserves the history of his ancestors. — Edmund Burke

The love of lucre, though sometimes carried to a ridiculous excess, a vicious excess, is the grand cause of prosperity to all States. — Edmund Burke

Nothing so effectually deadens the taste of the sublime as that which is light and radiant. — Edmund Burke

A thing may look specious in theory, and yet be ruinous in practice; a thing may look evil in theory, and yet be in practice excellent. — Edmund Burke

That cardinal virtue, temperance. — 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

If you can be well without health, you may be happy without virtue. — Edmund Burke

The credulity of dupes is as inexhaustible as the invention of knaves. — Edmund Burke

All that needs to be done for evil to prevail is good men doing nothing. — Edmund Burke

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

The hottest fires in hell are reserved for those who remain neutral in times of moral crisis. — 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