Ambition can creep as well as soar. – Edmund Burke
There is a boundary to mens passions when they act from feelings but none when they are under the influence of imagination. – Edmund Burke
Those who dont know history are destined to repeat it. – Edmund Burke
Never despair, but if you do, work on in despair. – Edmund Burke
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
I venture to say no war can be long carried on against the will of the people. – Edmund Burke
The person who grieves suffers his passion to grow upon him he indulges it, he loves it but this never happens in the case of actual pain, which no man ever willingly endured for any considerable time. – Edmund Burke
Society can overlook murder, adultery or swindling it never forgives preaching of a new gospel. – Edmund Burke
Nobility is a graceful ornament to the civil order. It is the Corinthian capital of polished society. – Edmund Burke
Nothing is so fatal to religion as indifference. – Edmund Burke
Superstition is the religion of feeble minds. – Edmund Burke
All human laws are, properly speaking, only declaratory they have no power over the substance of original justice. – Edmund Burke
The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse. – Edmund Burke
Politics and the pulpit are terms that have little agreement. – Edmund Burke
Our patience will achieve more than our force. – Edmund Burke
There is but one law for all, namely that law which governs all law, the law of our Creator, the law of humanity, justice, equity – the law of nature and of nations. – Edmund Burke
It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact. – Edmund Burke
To tax and to please, no more than to love and to be wise, is not given to men. – Edmund Burke
It is, generally, in the season of prosperity that men discover their real temper, principles, and designs. – Edmund Burke
Under the pressure of the cares and sorrows of our mortal condition, men have at all times, and in all countries, called in some physical aid to their moral consolations – wine, beer, opium, brandy, or tobacco. – Edmund Burke
