Edmund Burke

The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse…

I have never yet seen any plan which has not been mended by the observations…

But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded…

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

Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows, and of lending existence to nothing…

Politics and the pulpit are terms that have little agreement…

He had no failings which were not owing to a noble cause to an ardent…

Nothing is so fatal to religion as indifference…

Justice is itself the great standing policy of civil society and any eminent departure from…

But what is liberty without wisdom, and without virtue? It is the greatest of all…

There is a boundary to men’s passions when they act from feelings but none when…

Under the pressure of the cares and sorrows of our mortal condition, men have at…

All human laws are, properly speaking, only declaratory they have no power over the substance…

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

No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning…