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Edmund Burke Quotes - Page 20

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You will not think it unnatural that those who have an object depending, which strongly engages their hopes and fears, should be somewhat inclining to superstition.

You will not think it unnatural that those who have an object depending, which strongly engages their hopes and fears, should be somewhat inclining to superstition.

Thinking, Superstitions, Should

Edmund Burke (1847). “The Speeches of the Right Hon. Edmund Burke”, p.531

Fellowship in treason is a bad ground of confidence.

Fellowship, Treason

Edmund Burke (1826). “The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke”, p.97

Falsehood and delusion are allowed in no case whatever; but, as in the exercise of all the virtues, there is an economy of truth. It is a sort of temperance, by which a man speaks truth with measure, that he may speak it the longer.

Truth, Exercise, Men

Edmund Burke (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Edmund Burke (Illustrated)”, p.3863, Delphi Classics

A great deal of the furniture of ancient tyranny is torn to rags; the rest is entirely out of fashion.

Fashion, Rags, Furniture

Edmund Burke (1834). “The Works of the Right Hon. Edmund Burke: With a Biographical and Critical Introduction, and Portrait After Sir Joshua Reynolds”, p.126

Laws, like houses, lean on one another.

Freedom, Law, House

'A Tract on the Popery Laws' (planned c.1765) ch. 3, pt. 1 in 'The Works' vol. 5 (1812)

Nothing so effectually deadens the taste of the sublime as that which is light and radiant.

Light, Sublime, Taste

There is America, which at this day serves for little more than to amuse you with stories of savage men and uncouth manners, yet shall, before you taste of death, show itself equal to the whole of that commerce which now attracts the envy of the world.

Death, Men, America

Edmund Burke (1852). “The Works and Correspondence of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke”, p.250

The power of discretionary disqualification by one law of Parliament, and the necessity of paying every debt of the Civil List by another law of Parliament, if suffered to pass unnoticed, must establish such a fund of rewards and terrors as will make Parliament the best appendage and support of arbitrary power that ever was invented by the wit of man.

Men, Law, Support

Edmund Burke (2005). “Burke, Select Works”, p.73, The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd.

Tell me what are the prevailing sentiments that occupy the minds of your young peoples, and I will tell you what is to be the character of the next generation.

Character, Civilization, Mind

Crimes lead into one another. They who are capable of being forgers, are capable of being incendiaries.

Prison, Crime, Capable

"Correspondence of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke: Between the Year 1744 and the Period of His Decease, in 1797".

Nobility is a graceful ornament to the civil order. It is the Corinthian capital of polished society.

Order, Society, Aristocracy

'Reflections on the Revolution in France' (1790) p. 205

No man can mortgage his injustice as a pawn for his fidelity.

Men, Pawns, Injustice

George Croly, Edmund Burke (1840). “A Memoir of the Political Life of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke: With Extracts from His Writings”, p.82

All those instances to be found in history, whether real or fabulous, of a doubtful public spirit, at which morality is perplexed, reason is staggered, and from which affrighted Nature recoils, are their chosen and almost sole examples for the instruction of their youth.

Nature, Real, Historical

Edmund Burke (1999). “The Portable Edmund Burke”, p.484, Penguin

The liberty I mean is social freedom. It is that state of things in which liberty is secured by the equality of restraint. A constitution of things in which the liberty of no one man, and no body of men, and no number of men, can find means to trespass on the liberty of any person, or any description of persons, in the society. This kind of liberty is, indeed, but another name for justice.

Philosophy, Mean, Men

Edmund Burke (1999). “The Portable Edmund Burke”, p.503, Penguin

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.

Wise, Hands, Oppression

Edmund Burke (1807). “Works: 1st American from the Last London Ed”, p.47

Fiction lags after truth, invention is unfruitful, and imagination cold and barren.

Truth, Imagination, Fiction

Speech 'On Conciliation with America' 22 March 1775

Knowledge of those unalterable Relations which Providence has ordained that every thing should bear to every other...To these we should conform in good Earnest; and not think to force Nature, and the whole Order of her System, by a Compliance with our Pride, and Folly, to conform to our artificial Regulations.

Pride, Thinking, Order

Edmund Burke (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Edmund Burke (Illustrated)”, p.24, Delphi Classics

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