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Edmund Burke Quotes about Wisdom

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The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.

The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.

Inspirational, Wisdom, Witty

Those who don't know history are destined to repeat it.

Wisdom, Historical, Conservative

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

Wisdom, Freedom, Giving Up

Speech at County Meeting of Buckinghamshire, 1784

But what is liberty without wisdom, and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils; for it is folly, vice, and madness, without tuition or restraint.

Wisdom, Evil, Liberty

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

There is no safety for honest men, but by believing all possible evil of evil men, and by acting with promptitude, decision, and steadiness on that belief.

Wisdom, Believe, Men

"Edmund Burke: Selected Writings and Speeches".

In history, a great volume is unrolled for our instruction, drawing the materials of future wisdom from the past errors and infirmities of mankind.

Wisdom, Past, Errors

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.208

Never, no never, did Nature say one thing, and wisdom another.

Wisdom, Nature, Health

'Letters on a Regicide Peace' Letter 3 (1797)

The grand instructor, time.

Wise, Wisdom, Instructors

Edmund Burke (1856). “The Works of the R.H. Edmund Burke”, p.57

There is but one law for all, namely that law which governs all law, the law of our Creator, the law of humanity, justice, equity - the law of nature and of nations.

Wisdom, Equality, Law

Speech, 28 May 1794, in E. A. Bond (ed.) 'Speeches...in the Trial of Warren Hastings' (1859) vol. 4, p. 377

Liberty, without wisdom, is license.

Wisdom, Liberty, License

Thank God, men that art greatly guilty are never wise.

Wise, Wisdom, Art

The more accurately we search into the human mind, the stronger traces we everywhere find of his wisdom who made it.

Wisdom, Mind, Stronger

"On Taste on the Sublime and Beautiful, Reflections on the Revolution, A Letter to a Noble Lord".

The wisdom of our ancestors.

Wisdom, Ancestor

Edmund Burke (2005). “Burke, Select Works”, p.271, The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd.

In such a strait the wisest may well be perplexed and the boldest staggered.

Wisdom, May, Wells

Edmund Burke (1852). “The Works and Correspondence of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke”, p.161

The power of perpetuating our property in our families is one of the most valuable and interesting circumstances belonging to it, and that which tends the most to the perpetuation of society itself.

Wisdom, Interesting, Politics

Edmund Burke (2014). “Revolutionary Writings: Reflections on the Revolution in France and the First Letter on a Regicide Peace”, p.52, Cambridge University Press

Whatever each man can separately do, without trespassing upon others, he has a right to do for himself; and he has a right to a fair portion of all which society, with all it combinations of skill and force, can do in his favor. In this partnership all men have equal rights; but not to equal things.

Wisdom, Men, Rights

Edmund Burke (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Edmund Burke (Illustrated)”, p.1426, Delphi Classics

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