black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

People must be taken as they are, and we should never try make them or ourselves better by quarreling with them.

Edmund Burke

The blood of man should never be shed but to redeem the blood of man. It is well shed for our family, for our friends, for our God, for our country, for our kind. The rest is vanity; the rest is crime.
EDMUND BURKE

Blood Country Crime Family Friendship Kind Man Rest
True religion is the foundation of society. When that is once shaken by contempt, the whole fabric cannot be stable nor lasting.
EDMUND BURKE

Foundation Religion Society Stability True
The first and simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind, is curiosity.
EDMUND BURKE

Curiosity Discover Human Kind Simplicity
Rage and frenzy will pull down more in half an hour than prudence, deliberation, and foresight can build up in a hundred years.
EDMUND BURKE

Build Prudence Rage Time
To speak of atrocious crime in mild language is treason to virtue.
EDMUND BURKE

Crime Death Language Talk Treason Value
Politics and the pulpit are terms that have little agreement.
EDMUND BURKE

Agreement Politics
Nothing is so fatal to religion as indifference.
EDMUND BURKE

Difference Fatal Religion
People must be taken as they are, and we should never try make them or ourselves better by quarreling with them.
EDMUND BURKE

Acceptance Better Fight People Quarrel Try
The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion.
EDMUND BURKE

Delusion Give Up Liberty People
A great empire and little minds go ill together.
EDMUND BURKE

Empire Greatness Mindset Togetherness
Equity money is dynamic and debt money is static.
EDMUND BURKE

Money Statistics
Men are qualified for civil liberty in exact proportion to their disposition to put moral chains upon their own appetites.
EDMUND BURKE

Appetite Liberty Man Qualification
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.
EDMUND BURKE

Act Attitude Belief Believe Decision Honesty Man Possible Safety
The credulity of dupes is as inexhaustible as the invention of knaves.
EDMUND BURKE

Credit Invention Knife
This sort of people are so taken up with their theories about the rights of man that they have totally forgotten his nature.
EDMUND BURKE

Forget Man Nature People Right Theory
The tyranny of a multitude is a multiplied tyranny.
EDMUND BURKE

Multitude Tyranny

People must be taken as they are, and we should never try make them or ourselves better by quarreling with them.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

People must be taken as they are, and we should never try make them or ourselves better by quarreling with them.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Edmund Burke Quotes