They defend their errors as if they were defending their inheritance. – Edmund Burke
There is a limit at which forbearance ceases to be a virtue. – Edmund Burke
Custom reconciles us to everything. – Edmund Burke
Slavery is a weed that grows on every soil. – Edmund Burke
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 in. – Edmund Burke
People must be taken as they are, and we should never try make them or ourselves better by quarreling with them. – Edmund Burke
Taxing is an easy business. Any projector can contrive new compositions, any bungler can add to the old. – Edmund Burke
A populace never rebels from passion for attack, but from impatience of suffering. – Edmund Burke
To make us love our country, our country ought to be lovely. – Edmund Burke
If the people are happy, united, wealthy, and powerful, we presume the rest. We conclude that to be good from whence good is derived. – Edmund Burke
Men are qualified for civil liberty in exact proportion to their disposition to put moral chains upon their own appetites… Society cannot exist, unless a controlling power upon will and appetite be placed somewhere; and the less of it there is within, the more there must be without. – Edmund Burke
The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedience, and by parts. – Edmund Burke
Liberty must be limited in order to be possessed. – Edmund Burke
The effect of liberty to individuals is that they may do what they please: we ought to see what it will please them to do, before we risk congratulations. – Edmund Burke
It looks to me to be narrow and pedantic to apply the ordinary ideas of criminal justice to this great public contest. I do not know the method of drawing up an indictment against a whole people. – Edmund Burke
People will not look forward to posterity who will not look backward to their ancestors. – Edmund Burke
The great must submit to the dominion of prudence and of virtue, or none will long submit to the dominion of the great. – Edmund Burke
Great men are the guideposts and landmarks in the state. – Edmund Burke
The first and simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind, is curiosity. – Edmund Burke
Some degree of novelty must be one of the materials in almost every instrument which works upon the mind; and curiosity blends itself, more or less, with all our pleasures. – Edmund Burke
