Quotes from Edmund Burke
Great men are the guideposts and landmarks in the state.
- Edmund Burke
It is, generally, in the season of prosperity that men discover their real temper, principles, and designs.
- Edmund Burke
Evil succeeds when good men do nothing
- Edmund Burke
There are some men formed with feelings so blunt that they can hardly be said to be awake during the whole course of their lives.
- Edmund Burke
The poorest being that crawls on earth, contending to save itself from injustice and oppression, is an object respectable in the eyes of God and man.
- Edmund Burke
Oppression makes wise men mad; but the distemper is still the madness of the wise, which is better than the sobriety of fools.
- Edmund Burke
Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows, and of lending existence to nothing.
- Edmund Burke
Falsehood is a perennial spring.
- Edmund Burke
Free trade is not based on utility but on justice.
- Edmund Burke
It is undoubtedly true, though it may seem paradoxical,--but, in general, those who are habitually employed in finding and displaying faults are unqualified for the work of reformation.
- Edmund Burke
Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation.
- Edmund Burke
The body of all true religion consists, to be sure, in obedience to the will of the Sovereign of the world, in a confidence in His declarations, and in imitation of His perfections.
- Edmund Burke