To complain of the age we live in, to murmur at the present possessors of power, to lament the past, to conceive extravagant hopes of the future, are the common dispositions of the greatest part of mankind.
EDMUND BURKETo complain of the age we live in, to murmur at the present possessors of power, to lament the past, to conceive extravagant hopes of the future, are the common dispositions of the greatest part of mankind.
EDMUND BURKEThere is a boundary to men’s passions when they act from feelings; but none when they are under the influence of imagination.
EDMUND BURKENothing is so fatal to religion as indifference.
EDMUND BURKEThe tyranny of a multitude is a multiplied tyranny.
EDMUND BURKEYou can never plan the future by the past.
EDMUND BURKEIt is ordained in the eternal constitution of things, that men of intemperate minds cannot be free. Their passions forge their fetters.
EDMUND BURKERage and frenzy will pull down more in half an hour than prudence, deliberation, and foresight can build up in a hundred years.
EDMUND BURKEApplaud us when we run, Console us when we fall, Cheer us when we recover.
EDMUND BURKETo read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
EDMUND BURKEThe true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedience, and by parts.
EDMUND BURKEA State without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation.
EDMUND BURKEIf we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free; if our wealth commands us, we are poor indeed.
EDMUND BURKEPolitics and the pulpit are terms that have little agreement.
EDMUND BURKEThere 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.
EDMUND BURKEPeople crushed by law, have no hopes but from power. If laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to laws; and those who have much hope and nothing to lose, will always be dangerous.
EDMUND BURKEMen who undertake considerable things, even in a regular way, ought to give us ground to presume ability.
EDMUND BURKE