Quotes from Edmund Burke
Kings will be tyrants from policy, when subjects are rebels from principle.
- Edmund Burke
Those who don't know history are destined to repeat it.
- Edmund Burke
There is no safety for honest men, but by believing all possible evil of evil men, and by acting with promptitude, decision, and steadiness on that belief.
- Edmund Burke
Never, no never, did Nature say one thing, and wisdom another.
- Edmund Burke
The only infallible criterion of wisdom to vulgar minds - success.
- Edmund Burke
The power of perpetuating our property in our families is one of the most valuable and interesting circumstances belonging to it, and that which tends the most to the perpetuation of society itself.
- Edmund Burke
God has sometimes converted wickedness into madness; and it is to the credit of human reason that men who are not in some degree mad are never capable of being in the highest degree wicked.
- Edmund Burke
Education is the cheap defense of nations.
- Edmund Burke
The conduct of a losing party never appears right: at least it never can possess the only infallible criterion of wisdom to vulgar judgements-success.
- Edmund Burke
All that needs to be done for evil to prevail is good men doing nothing.
- Edmund Burke
Men who undertake considerable things, even in a regular way, ought to give us ground to presume ability.
- Edmund Burke
Great men are never sufficiently shown but in struggles.
- Edmund Burke