Famous quotes by Statesmans

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

Edmund Burke, Statesman

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

Edmund Burke, Statesman

"The person who grieves suffers his passion to grow upon him; he indulges it, he loves it; but this never happens in the case of actual pain, which no man ever willingly endured for any considerable time"

Edmund Burke, Statesman

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

Edmund Burke, Statesman

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

Edmund Burke, Statesman

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

Edmund Burke, Statesman

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

Edmund Burke, Statesman

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

Edmund Burke, Statesman

"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"

Edmund Burke, Statesman

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

Edmund Burke, Statesman

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

Edmund Burke, Statesman

"To innovate is not to reform"

Edmund Burke, Statesman

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

Edmund Burke, Statesman

"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"

Edmund Burke, Statesman

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

Edmund Burke, Statesman

"Superstition is the religion of feeble minds"

Edmund Burke, Statesman

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

Edmund Burke, Statesman

"Slavery is a weed that grows on every soil"

Edmund Burke, Statesman

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

Edmund Burke, Statesman

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

Edmund Burke, Statesman

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

Edmund Burke, Statesman

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

Edmund Burke, Statesman

"Mere parsimony is not economy. Expense, and great expense, may be an essential part in true economy"

Edmund Burke, Statesman

"Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom; and a great empire and little minds go ill together"

Edmund Burke, Statesman

"Liberty must be limited in order to be possessed"

Edmund Burke, Statesman

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

Edmund Burke, Statesman

"It is, generally, in the season of prosperity that men discover their real temper, principles, and designs"

Edmund Burke, Statesman

"I have never yet seen any plan which has not been mended by the observations of those who were much inferior in understanding to the person who took the lead in the business"

Edmund Burke, Statesman

"He that struggles with us strengthens our nerves, and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper"

Edmund Burke, Statesman

"He had no failings which were not owing to a noble cause; to an ardent, generous, perhaps an immoderate passion for fame; a passion which is the instinct of all great souls"

Edmund Burke, Statesman

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