“Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other.”

— Edmund Burke, Letters On a Regicide Peace, No. 1, 1796

About Edmund Burke

1729 – 1797

Irish statesman and political philosopher, author of "Reflections on the Revolution in France".

“Early and provident fear is the mother of safety.”

“Our patience will achieve more than our force.”

“Power gradually extirpates from the mind every humane and gentle virtue.”

“For the things we have to learn before we can do, we learn by doing.”

“Isn't it a pleasure to study and practice what you have learned?”

“The end then of learning is to repair the ruins of our first parents.”

“One must learn to know oneself before knowing anything else.”

“To be native to a place we must learn to speak its language.”

“I had now the key to all language, and I was eager to learn to use it.”