Edmund Burke Quotes
1729 – 1797
Irish statesman and political philosopher, author of "Reflections on the Revolution in France".
26 quotesAbout Edmund Burke on Wikipedia
“Power gradually extirpates from the mind every humane and gentle virtue.”
“No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.”
“There is, however, a limit at which forbearance ceases to be a virtue.”
“To tax and to please, no more than to love and to be wise, is not given to men.”
“Abstract liberty, like other mere abstractions, is not to be found.”
“Partial freedom seems to me a most invidious mode of slavery.”
“People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors.”
“Better to be despised for too anxious apprehensions, than ruined by too confident a security.”
“To make us love our country, our country ought to be lovely.”
“A state without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation.”
“Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants.”
“Men of intemperate minds cannot be free. Their passions forge their fetters.”
“Economy is a distributive virtue, and consists not in saving but selection.”
