Edmund Burke Quotes
Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation.
There is a boundary to men`s passions when they act from feelings; but none when they are under the influence of imagination.
When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.
You can never plan the future by the past.
Public calamity is a mighty leveler
The greatest crimes do not arise from a want of feeling for others but from an over-sensibility for ourselves and an over-indulgence to our own desires
Nothing is so fatal to religion as indifference, which is, at least, half infidelity
People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors
Hypocrisy can afford to be magnificent in its promises, for never intending to go beyond promise, it costs nothing
All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
Never despair; but if you do, work on in despair
Next to love, sympathy is the divinest passion of the human heart
Whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither, in my opinion, is safe.
Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones.
Fraud is the ready minister of injustice.
Falsehood is a perennial spring.
The religion most prevalent in our northern colonies is a refinement on the principles of resistance: it is the dissidence of dissent, and the Protestantism of the Protestant religion
I know that many have been taught to think that moderation, in a case like this, is a sort of treason
