Edmund Burke Quotes

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

The Fate of good men who refuse to become involved in politics is to be ruled by evil men.

Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny.

By gnawing through a dike, even a rat may drown a nation.

Prudence is not only the first in rank of the virtues political and moral, but she is the director and regulator, the standard of them all.

A populace never rebels from passion for attack, but from impatience of suffering.

Men who undertake considerable things, even in a regular way, ought to give us ground to presume ability.