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Edmund Burke Quotes - Page 13

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England and Ireland may flourish together. The world is large enough for both of us. Let it be our care not to make ourselves too little for it.

England and Ireland may flourish together. The world is large enough for both of us. Let it be our care not to make ourselves too little for it.

History, Together, Littles

Edmund Burke, Harvey C. Mansfield (1984). “Selected Letters of Edmund Burke”, p.404, University of Chicago Press

Beauty is the promise of happiness.

Beauty, Promise

There is a sort of enthusiasm in all projectors, absolutely necessary for their affairs, which makes them proof against the most fatiguing delays, the most mortifying disappointments, the most shocking insults; and, what is severer than all, the presumptuous judgement of the ignorant upon their designs.

Disappointment, Design, Judgement

"The Works of Edmund Burke in Nine Volumes", Vol. IX, Boston: Little, Brown, 1839.

No government ought to exist for the purpose of checking the prosperity of its people or to allow such a principle in its policy.

Government, People, Principles

"War," says Machiavelli, "ought to be the only study of a prince;" and by a prince he means every sort of state, however constituted. "He ought," says this great political doctor, "to consider peace only as a breathing-time, which gives him leisure to contrive, and furnishes ability to execute military plans." A meditation on the conduct of political societies made old Hobbes imagine that war was the state of nature.

Peace, War, Military

"A Vindication of Natural Society". Book by Edmund Burke, 1756.

There ought to be system of manners in every nation which a well-formed mind would be disposed to relish. To make us love our country, our country ought to be lovely.

Country, Lovely, Mind

Edmund Burke (1814). “Reflections on the Revolution in France and on the Proceedings in Certain Societies in London Relative to that Event”, p.79

Men have no right to put the well-being of the present generation wholly out of the question. Perhaps the only moral trust with any certainty in our hands is the care of our own time.

Men, Hands, Care

Edmund Burke (1834). “The Works of the Right Hon. Edmund Burke: With a Biographical and Critical Introduction, and Portrait After Sir Joshua Reynolds”, p.498

I have not yet lost a feeling of wonder, and of delight, that the delicate motion should reside in all the things around us, revealing itself only to him who looks for it.

Feelings, Looks, Delight

An entire life of solitude contradicts the purpose of our being, since death itself is scarcely an idea of more terror.

Ideas, Solitude, Purpose

Edmund Burke (2012). “A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful”, p.28, Courier Corporation

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.

Age, Looks, Gone

Edmund Burke (1826). “The Works of Edmund Burke”, p.149

Of all things, wisdom is the most terrified with epidemical fanaticism, because, of all enemies, it is that against which she is the least able to furnish any kind of resource.

Enemy, Able, Kind

Edmund Burke (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Edmund Burke (Illustrated)”, p.1500, Delphi Classics

The ocean is an object of no small terror.

Ocean, Sailing, Nautical

Edmund Burke, T. O. McLoughlin, Paul Langford, James T. Boulton (1997). “The Writings and Speeches of Edmund Burke: Volume I: The Early Writings”, p.230, Oxford University Press on Demand

Over-taxation cost England her colonies of North America.

America, Cost, Taxation

Writers, especially when they act in a body and with one direction, have great influence on the public mind.

Writing, One Direction, Mind

Edmund Burke (1860). “The Works of Edmund Burke: With a Memoir”, p.505

The introduction of Christianity, which, under whatever form, always confers such inestimable benefits on mankind, soon made a sensible change in these rude and fierce manners.

Rude, Benefits, Fierce

Edmund Burke (1963). “Edmund Burke: Selected Writings and Speeches”, p.87, Transaction Publishers

Contempt is not a thing to be despised. It may be borne with a calm and equal mind, but no man, by lifting his head high, can pretend that he does not perceive the scorns that are poured down on him from above.

Men, Mind, Doe

Edmund Burke (1841). “Works”, p.332

Nothing ought to be more weighed than the nature of books recommended by public authority. So recommended, they soon form the character of the age.

Book, Character, Age

Edmund Burke (1804). “Maxims and opinions, moral, political and economical, with characters, from the works of ... Edmund Burke”, p.14

I venture to say no war can be long carried on against the will of the people.

War, Long, People

Edmund Burke (1855). “The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke: Charge against Warren Hastings concluded”, p.189

There never was a bad man that had ability for good service.

Men, Ability, Good Service

Edmund Burke (1871). “The Works of the Right Honorable Edmund Burke”, p.59

All government is founded on compromise and banter.

Government, Compromise, Banter

The most favourable laws can do very little towards the happiness of people when the disposition of the ruling power is adverse to them.

Inspirational, Law, People

Edmund Burke (1852). “The Works and Correspondence Of...Edmund Burke”, p.73

Falsehood is a perennial spring.

Spring, Liars, Lying

Speech 'On American Taxation' 19 April 1774

Society is indeed a contract. It is a partnership in all science; a partnership in all art; a partnership in every virtue, and in all perfection. As the ends of such a partnership cannot be obtained in many generations, it becomes a partnership not only between those who are living, but between those who are living, those who are dead, and those who are to be born.

Art, Perfection, Society

Edmund Burke (1860). “The Works of Edmund Burke: With a Memoir”, p.498

Prejudice renders a man's virtue his habit, and a series of unconnected arts. Though just prejudice, his duty becomes a part of his nature.

Art, Men, Prejudice

Man is by his constitution a religious animal; atheism is against not only our reason, but our instincts.

Religious, Men, Animal

'Reflections on the Revolution in France' (1790) p. 135.

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