Quotes from Edmund Burke
Religious persecution may shield itself under the guise of a mistaken and over-zealous piety.
- 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
He was not merely a chip off the old block, but the old block itself.
- Edmund Burke
They never will love where they ought to love, who do not hate where they ought to hate.
- Edmund Burke
The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
- Edmund Burke
The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedience, and by parts.
- Edmund Burke
Mere parsimony is not economy . . . expense, and great expense, may be an essential part of true economy.
- Edmund Burke
When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.
- Edmund Burke
Wars are just to those to whom they are necessary.
- Edmund Burke
The cold neutrality of an impartial judge.
- Edmund Burke
Your representative owes you, not his industry only, but his judgement; and he betrays instead of serving you if he sacrifices it to your opinion.
- Edmund Burke
Superstition is the religion of feeble minds.
- Edmund Burke