Quotes from Edmund Burke
Not men but measures a sort of charm by which many people get loose from every honorable engagement.
- Edmund Burke
Turbulent, discontented men of quality, in proportion as they are puffed up with personal pride and arrogance, generally despise their own order.
- Edmund Burke
I consider how little man is, yet, in his own mind, how great. He is lord and master of all things, yet scarce can command anything.
- Edmund Burke
Man is by his constitution a religious animal.
- Edmund Burke
The esteem of wise and good men is the greatest of all temporal encouragements to virtue; and it is a mark of an abandoned spirit to have no regard to it.
- Edmund Burke
Party is a body of men united, for promoting by their joint endeavours the national interest, upon some particular principle in which they are all agreed.
- Edmund Burke
Men have no right to what is not reasonable, and to what is not for their benefit.
- Edmund Burke
Man is by his constitution a religious animal; atheism is against not only our reason, but our instincts.
- Edmund Burke
If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free; if our wealth commands us, we are poor indeed.
- Edmund Burke
Equity money is dynamic and debt money is static.
- Edmund Burke
The hottest fires in hell are reserved for those who remain neutral in times of moral crisis.
- Edmund Burke
The Fate of good men who refuse to become involved in politics is to be ruled by evil men.
- Edmund Burke