black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact.

Edmund Burke

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

Command Freedom Poor Rich Wealth
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.
EDMUND BURKE

Creator Government Law Nation Nature
Equity money is dynamic and debt money is static.
EDMUND BURKE

Money Statistics
To speak of atrocious crime in mild language is treason to virtue.
EDMUND BURKE

Crime Death Language Talk Treason Value
Whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither, in my opinion, is safe.
EDMUND BURKE

Justice Liberty Opinion Safety Separate
In history, a great volume is unrolled for our instruction, drawing the materials of future wisdom from the past errors and infirmities of mankind.
EDMUND BURKE

Errors History Instruction Kind Man Past Volume Wisdom
There is nothing that God has judged good for us that He has not given us the means to accomplish, both in the natural and the moral world.
EDMUND BURKE

Accomplishment God Judgement Moral World
Great men are never sufficiently shown but in struggles.
EDMUND BURKE

Greatness Man Struggle
A great empire and little minds go ill together.
EDMUND BURKE

Empire Greatness Mindset Togetherness
That the greatest security of the people, against the encroachments and usurpations of their superiors, is to keep the Spirit of Liberty constantly awake, is an undeniable truth.
EDMUND BURKE

Awake Greatness Liberty People Security Superior Truth
But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded; and the glory of Europe is extinguished forever.
EDMUND BURKE

Age Economics Forever Success
It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact.
EDMUND BURKE

Exact Greatness Nature
When a great man has some one object in view to be achieved in a given time, it may be absolutely necessary for him to walk out of all the common roads.
EDMUND BURKE

Achievement Greatness Man Object Road View
Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny.
EDMUND BURKE

Bad Law Worst
The great must submit to the dominion of prudence and of virtue, or none will long submit to the dominion of the great.
EDMUND BURKE

Domination Greatness
Toleration is good for all, or it is good for none.
EDMUND BURKE

Deep Goodness Tolerance

It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Edmund Burke Quotes