The essence of tyranny is the enforcement of stupid laws.
EDMUND BURKEThe essence of tyranny is the enforcement of stupid laws.
EDMUND BURKEThose who have been intoxicated with power… can never willingly abandon it.
EDMUND BURKESilence is golden but when it threatens your freedom it’s yellow.
EDMUND BURKETrue religion is the foundation of society. When that is once shaken by contempt, the whole fabric cannot be stable nor lasting.
EDMUND BURKEBut the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded; and the glory of Europe is extinguished forever.
EDMUND BURKENo passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.
EDMUND BURKEWhen you fear something, learn as much about it as you can. Knowledge conquers fear.
EDMUND BURKENothing is so fatal to religion as indifference.
EDMUND BURKEThere 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 BURKEThe greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.
EDMUND BURKEPower gradually extirpates from the mind every humane and gentle virtue.
EDMUND BURKEMen who undertake considerable things, even in a regular way, ought to give us ground to presume ability.
EDMUND BURKEGood order is the foundation of all things.
EDMUND BURKEOne that confounds good and evil is an enemy to good.
EDMUND BURKEMere parsimony is not economy. Expense, and great expense, may be an essential part in true economy.
EDMUND BURKEA populace never rebels from passion for attack, but from impatience of suffering.
EDMUND BURKE