History consists, for the greater part, of the miseries brought upon the world by pride, ambition, avarice, revenge, lust, sedition, hypocrisy, ungoverned zeal, and all the train of disorderly appetite.
EDMUND BURKEThe greatest sin is to do nothing because you can only do a little.
More Edmund Burke Quotes
-
-
People must be taken as they are, and we should never try make them or ourselves better by quarreling with them.
EDMUND BURKE -
All men have equal rights, but not to equal things.
EDMUND BURKE -
Nothing is so fatal to religion as indifference.
EDMUND BURKE -
Kings will be tyrants from policy, when subjects are rebels from principle.
EDMUND BURKE -
We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.
EDMUND BURKE -
It is ordained in the eternal constitution of things, that men of intemperate minds cannot be free. Their passions forge their fetters.
EDMUND BURKE -
The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.
EDMUND BURKE -
Your representative owes you, not his industry only, but his judgment; and he betrays instead of serving you if he sacrifices it to your opinion.
EDMUND BURKE -
Men who undertake considerable things, even in a regular way, ought to give us ground to presume ability.
EDMUND BURKE -
General rebellions and revolts of a whole people never were encouraged now or at any time. They are always provoked.
EDMUND BURKE -
The essence of tyranny is the enforcement of stupid laws.
EDMUND BURKE -
The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion.
EDMUND BURKE -
By hating vices too much, they come to love men too little.
EDMUND BURKE -
History is a pact between the dead, the living, and the yet unborn.
EDMUND BURKE -
The greatest sin is to do nothing because you can only do a little.
EDMUND BURKE