• 
• 
• 
• 
• 
• 

1. black
2. grey
3. blue
4. red
5. brown
6. white

Never despair, but if you do, work on in despair.

Edmund Burke

Related Topics

DespairWork

Popular Authors

Marilyn Monroe Paulo Coelho Abraham Lincoln C. S. Lewis Khalil Gibran Charlie Chaplin Gautama Buddha Isaac Newton

Prevoius| Next

More Edmund Burke Quotes

• 

  General rebellions and revolts of a whole people never were encouraged now or at any time. They are always provoked.

  EDMUND BURKE
  EncouragementPeopleProvokeRebelRevolutionTime
• 

  The grave is a common treasury, to which we must all be taken.

  EDMUND BURKE
  GraveOurselvesTreasure
• 

  In a democracy, the majority of the citizens is capable of exercising the most cruel oppressions upon the minority.

  EDMUND BURKE
  CitizenshipDemocracyExerciseMajorityMinorityOppression
• 

  Those who have been intoxicated with power… can never willingly abandon it.

  EDMUND BURKE
  AbandonmentPowerWilling
• 

  Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny.

  EDMUND BURKE
  BadLawWorst
• 

  Education is the cheap defense of nations.

  EDMUND BURKE
  CheapDefenseEducationNation
• 

  All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter.

  EDMUND BURKE
  BarterFoundGovernmentHumanVirtue
• 

  Those who attempt to level never equalize.

  EDMUND BURKE
  EqualityLevel
• 

  Among a people generally corrupt liberty cannot long exist.

  EDMUND BURKE
  CorruptionExistenceLibertyPeople
• 

  No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.

  EDMUND BURKE
  ActFearMindsetPassionPowerReason
• 

  Those who don’t know history are destined to repeat it.

  EDMUND BURKE
  DestinyHistoryRepeat
• 

  Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation.

  EDMUND BURKE
  ArtCreationEssentialManReligionTheory
• 

  Never despair, but if you do, work on in despair.

  EDMUND BURKE
  DespairWork
• 

  All that is necessary for evil to succeed is for good men to do nothing as they must if they believe they can do nothing. There is nothing worse because the council of despair is declaration of irresponsibility; it is Pilate washing his hands.

  EDMUND BURKE
  CouncilEvilHandsIrresponsibilityNecessarySuccessWash
• 

  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
  ActAttitudeBeliefBelieveDecisionHonestyManPossibleSafety
• 

  It is a general popular error to suppose the loudest complainers for the public to be the most anxious for its welfare.

  EDMUND BURKE
  AnxietyErrorsLoudPopularPublicWelfare