Sir Edmund Burke, (1729-1797) Quotes

Restraint and discipline and examples of virtue and justice; these are the things that form the education of the world.

We must not always judge of the generality of the opinion by the noise of the acclamation.

Politics and the pulpit are terms that have little agreement.

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

Slavery is a weed that grows on every soil.

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

The tyranny of a multitude is a multiplied tyranny.

In doing good, we are generally cold, and languid, and sluggish; and of all things afraid of being too much in the right. But the works of malice and injustice are quite in another style. They are finished with a bold, masterly hand; touched as they are with the spirit of those vehement passions that call forth all our energies, whenever we oppress and persecute.

It is hard to say whether the doctors of law or divinity have made the greater advances in the lucrative business of mystery.

In this choice of inheritance we have given to our frame of polity the image of a relation in blood; binding up the constitution of our country with our dearest domestic ties; adopting our fundamental laws into the bosom of our family affections; keeping inseparable and cherishing with the warmth of all their combined and mutually reflected charities, our state, our hearths, our sepulchres, and our altars.