Inspiring Quotes by Edmund Burke - Page 2

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"Liberty must be limited in order to be possessed"

"Kings will be tyrants from policy, when subjects are rebels from principle"

"To innovate is not to reform"

"Religious persecution may shield itself under the guise of a mistaken and over-zealous piety"

"Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation"

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

"No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear"

"Under the pressure of the cares and sorrows of our mortal condition, men have at all times, and in all countries, called in some physical aid to their moral consolations - wine, beer, opium, brandy, or tobacco"

"Toleration is good for all, or it is good for none"

"To tax and to please, no more than to love and to be wise, is not given to men"

"The first and simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind, is curiosity"

"The effect of liberty to individuals is that they may do what they please: we ought to see what it will please them to do, before we risk congratulations"

"The arrogance of age must submit to be taught by youth"

"Superstition is the religion of feeble minds"

"Society can overlook murder, adultery or swindling; it never forgives preaching of a new gospel"

"Slavery is a weed that grows on every soil"

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

"Whenever our neighbour's house is on fire, it cannot be amiss for the engines to play a little on our own"

"There is a boundary to men's passions when they act from feelings; but none when they are under the influence of imagination"

"If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free; if our wealth commands us, we are poor indeed"

"What ever disunites man from God, also disunites man from man"

"Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows, and of lending existence to nothing"

"Nothing turns out to be so oppressive and unjust as a feeble government"

"It is the nature of all greatness, not to be exact"

"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"

"People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors"

"A State without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation"

"All human laws are, properly speaking, only declaratory; they have no power over the substance of original justice"

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