Quotes from Edmund Burke

Never despair, but if you do, work on in despair.

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

They never will love where they ought to love, who do not hate where they ought to hate.

The person who grieves suffers his passion to grow upon him; he indulges it, he loves it; but this never happens in the case of actual pain, which no man ever willingly endured for any considerable time.

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

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

One that confounds good and evil is an enemy to good.

A State without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation.

When the leaders choose to make themselves bidders at an auction of popularity, their talents, in the construction of the state, will be of no service. They will become flatterers instead of legislators; the instruments, not the guides, of the people.

Laws, like houses, lean on one another.

There ought to be system of manners in every nation which a well-formed mind would be disposed to relish. To make us love our country, our country ought to be lovely.

Nothing is so fatal to religion as indifference.