Edmund Burke Quotes about Virtue

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To speak of atrocious crime in mild language is treason to virtue.

To speak of atrocious crime in mild language is treason to virtue.

Edmund Burke

Language, Speak, Virtue

Attributed in "Captain William Kidd: And Others of the Pirates Or Buccaneers who Ravaged the Seas, the Islands, and the Continents of America Two Hundred Years Ago" by John Stevens Cabot Abbott, (p. 179), 1876.

Our patience will achieve more than our force.

Edmund Burke

Inspirational, Patience, Virtue

'Reflections on the Revolution in France' (1790) p. 249

Economy is a distributive virtue, and consists not in saving but selection. Parsimony requires no providence, no sagacity, no powers of combination, no comparison, no judgment.

Edmund Burke

Saving, Judgment, Virtue

Edmund Burke (1834). “The Beauties of Burke, Consisting of Selections from His Works”, p.59