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The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.

Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny.

Edmund Burke

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

Edmund Burke

Among a people generally corrupt liberty cannot long exist.

Edmund Burke

I have never yet seen any plan which has not been mended by the observations of those who were much inferior in understanding to the person who took the lead in the business.

Edmund Burke

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

Edmund Burke

Nothing turns out to be so oppressive and unjust as a feeble government.

Edmund Burke

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

Edmund Burke

Justice is itself the great standing policy of civil society; and any eminent departure from it, under any circumstances, lies under the suspicion of being no policy at all.

Edmund Burke

Frugality is founded on the principal that all riches have limits.

Edmund Burke

Beauty is the promise of happiness.

Edmund Burke

Tyrants seldom want pretexts.

Edmund Burke

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

Edmund Burke

Nobility is a graceful ornament to the civil order. It is the Corinthian capital of polished society.

Edmund Burke

To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.

Edmund Burke

Politics and the pulpit are terms that have little agreement.

Edmund Burke

Our patience will achieve more than our force.

Edmund Burke

The traveller has reached the end of the journey!

Edmund Burke

All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter.

Edmund Burke

It is, generally, in the season of prosperity that men discover their real temper, principles, and designs.

Edmund Burke

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

Edmund Burke

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

Edmund Burke

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 Burke

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

Edmund Burke

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 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

Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver.

Edmund Burke

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

Edmund Burke

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

Edmund Burke

Ambition can creep as well as soar.

Edmund Burke

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

Edmund Burke

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

Edmund Burke

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

Edmund Burke

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

Edmund Burke

Nothing is so fatal to religion as indifference.

Edmund Burke

Circumstances give in reality to every political principle its distinguishing color and discriminating effect. The circumstances are what render every civil and political scheme beneficial or noxious to mankind.

Edmund Burke

Custom reconciles us to everything.

Edmund Burke