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Famous Quotes Home >> Authors Starting with E >> Quotes By Edmund Burke |
| Quote #1: | "Our patience will achieve more than our force." |
| Quote #2: | "There is a boundary to men's passions when they act from feelings but none when they are under the influence of imagination." |
| Quote #3: | "The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing." |
| Quote #4: | "You can never plan the future by the past." |
| Quote #5: | "Whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither, in my opinion, is safe." |
| Quote #6: | "When bad men combine, the good must associate else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle." |
| Quote #7: | "All government -- indeed, every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue and every prudent act -- is founded on compromise and barter." |
| Quote #8: | "He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist in our helper." |
| Quote #9: | "The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedients, and by parts." |
| Quote #10: | "We must not always judge of the generality of the opinion by the noise of the acclamation." |
| Quote #11: | "Nobility is a graceful ornament to the civil order. It is the Corinthian capital of polished society." |
| Quote #12: | "All that is necessary for the forces of evil to win in the world is for enough good men to do nothing." |
| Quote #13: | "Good order is the foundation of all things." |
| Quote #14: | "There is no safety for honest men but by believing all possible evil of evil men." |
| Quote #15: | "The only infallible criterion of wisdom to vulgar minds -- success." |
| Quote #16: | "Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants. Men have right that these wants should be provided for, including the want of a sufficient restraint upon their passions." |
| Quote #17: | "History is a pact between the dead, the living, and the yet unborn." |
| Quote #18: | "Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other." |
| Quote #19: | "An event has happened, upon which it is difficult to speak, and impossible to be silent." |
| Quote #20: | "We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature." |
| Quote #21: | "Toleration is good for all, or it is good for none." |
| Quote #22: | "Ambition can creep as well as soar." |
| Quote #23: | "No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear." |
| Quote #24: | "I thought ten thousand swords must have leaped from their scabbards to avenge even a look that threatened her with insult. But the age of chivalry is gone." |
| Quote #25: | "Never despair but if you do, work on in despair." |
| Quote #26: | "All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing." |
| Quote #27: | "It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact." |
| Quote #28: | "The wise determine from the gravity of the case the irritable, from sensibility to oppression the high minded, from disdain and indignation at abusive power in unworthy hands." |
| Quote #29: | "Better be despised for too anxious apprehensions, than ruined by too confident security." |
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