Edmund Burke Quotes

For evil to triumph, it is only necessary for good people to do nothing.

He who fights against us strengthens our nerves and perfects our ability.

The people never relinquish their freedoms except under the deception of an illusion.

You can never plan the future through the past.

To be pleasing when taxes are collected and to be wise when one loves are virtues that have not been granted to men.

Superstition is the religion of weak minds.

There is a limit to the extent of which tolerance ceases to be a virtue.

The tyranny of a multitude is a multiplied tyranny.

Human society constitutes an association of the sciences, the arts, virtues, and perfections. Since its ends cannot be achieved in many generations, not only the living participate in this association, but also the dead and those yet to be born.

The people who never care about their ancestors will never look towards posterity.

Abstract freedom, like other simple abstractions, cannot be found.

Favoritism burdens us more heavily than many millions of debt.