black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

To speak of atrocious crime in mild language is treason to virtue.

Edmund Burke

Hypocrisy can afford to be magnificent in its promises, for never intending to go beyond promise, it costs nothing.
EDMUND BURKE

Afford Beyond Cost Hypocrisy Promise
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

Betrayal Himself Industry Opinion Representation Sacrifice Service
Justice is itself the great standing policy of civil society; and any eminent departure from it, under any circumstances, lies under the suspicion of being no policy at all.
EDMUND BURKE

Greatness Justice Policy
A populace never rebels from passion for attack, but from impatience of suffering.
EDMUND BURKE

Attack Impatience Passion Popular Rebel Suffering
But what is liberty without wisdom, and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils; for it is folly, vice, and madness, without tuition or restraint.
EDMUND BURKE

Greatness Liberty Madness Possible Restraint Virtue Wisdom
Power gradually extirpates from the mind every humane and gentle virtue.
EDMUND BURKE

Gentle Gradual Human Mindset Power
Silence is golden but when it threatens your freedom it’s yellow.
EDMUND BURKE

Freedom Gold Silence Yourself
The essence of tyranny is the enforcement of stupid laws.
EDMUND BURKE

Essence Force Law Stupidity
By hating vices too much, they come to love men too little.
EDMUND BURKE

Hate Love Vice
History is a pact between the dead, the living, and the yet unborn.
EDMUND BURKE

Born Death History Live Value
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 BURKE

Appetite Greatness History Misery Pride Training World
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
When you fear something, learn as much about it as you can. Knowledge conquers fear.
EDMUND BURKE

Fear Knowledge Learning Yourself
The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion.
EDMUND BURKE

Delusion Give Up Liberty People
Manners are of more importance than laws. Manners are what vex or soothe, corrupt or purify, exalt or debase, barbarize or refine us, by a constant, steady, uniform, insensible operation, like that of the air we breathe.
EDMUND BURKE

Breathe Corruption Important Law Refine
Those who attempt to level never equalize.
EDMUND BURKE

Equality Level

To speak of atrocious crime in mild language is treason to virtue.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

To speak of atrocious crime in mild language is treason to virtue.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Edmund Burke Quotes