Edmund Burke Quotes about Freedom

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In a democracy, the majority of the citizens is capable of exercising the most cruel oppressions upon the minority.

In a democracy, the majority of the citizens is capable of exercising the most cruel oppressions upon the minority.

Edmund Burke

Freedom, Exercise, Democracy

Edmund Burke (1790). “Reflections on the Revolution in France: And on the Proceedings in Certain Societies in London Relative to that Event. In a Letter Intended to Have Been Sent to a Gentleman in Paris”, p.186

Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny.

Edmund Burke

Freedom, Carpe Diem, Law

Speech at the Guildhall, Bristol, England, 6 Sept. 1780

The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion.

Edmund Burke

Wisdom, Freedom, Giving Up

Speech at County Meeting of Buckinghamshire, 1784

The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.

Edmund Burke

Bullying, Freedom, Work

Speech on the Middlesex Election, 7 February 1771, in 'The Speeches' (1854)

Whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither, in my opinion, is safe.

Edmund Burke

Freedom, Justice, Liberty

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

General rebellions and revolts of a whole people never were encouraged now or at any time. They are always provoked.

Edmund Burke

Freedom, People, Democracy

Edmund Burke (1807). “The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke”, p.106

In a free country every man thinks he has a concern in all public matters,--that he has a right to form and a right to deliver an opinion on them. This it is that fills countries with men of ability in all stations.

Edmund Burke

Country, Freedom, Men

Freedom and not servitude is the cure of anarchy; as religion, and not atheism, is the true remedy of superstition.

Edmund Burke

Freedom, Atheism, Superstitions

Speech 'On Conciliation with America' 22 March 1775

To prove that the Americans ought not to be free, we are obliged to deprecate the value of freedom itself.

Edmund Burke

Freedom, Prove, Ought

Depend upon it that the lovers of freedom will be free.

Edmund Burke

Freedom, Lovers, Depends

Edmund Burke, James BURKE (Barrister-at-Law.) (1854). “The Speeches of the Right Hon. Edmund Burke, with Memoir and Historical Introductions. By James Burke”, p.134