56 Edmund Burke Quotes for You to Enjoy

Edmund Burke

Irish Statesman

Born: Jan 12, 1729

Died: Jul 9, 1797

Great Legal Liberty Men People Will

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All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent. Edmund Burke

Good Needs People Tyranny Silent Remain Gain Conscience

You can never plan the future by the past. Edmund Burke

Future You Past Never Plan

The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse. Edmund Burke

Dangerous Power More Abuse Greater

When the leaders choose to make themselves bidders at an auction of popularity, their talents, in the construction of the state, will be of no service. They will become flatterers instead of legislators; the instruments, not the guides, of the people. Edmund Burke

Service Construction People Will Become State Guides Instead Leaders Talents Make Instruments Auction Legislators Themselves Choose Popularity

Nothing turns out to be so oppressive and unjust as a feeble government. Edmund Burke

Government Nothing Unjust Out Feeble Oppressive Turns

It is not what a lawyer tells me I may do; but what humanity, reason, and justice tell me I ought to do. Edmund Burke

Me Justice Legal Humanity Lawyer Ought Tell Tells May Reason

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

Welfare Loudest General Suppose Most Error Anxious Public Popular

Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver. Edmund Burke

Corrupts Giver Both Flattery Receiver

Justice is itself the great standing policy of civil society; and any eminent departure from it, under any circumstances, lies under the suspicion of being no policy at all. Edmund Burke

Great Justice Legal Society Circumstances Lies Civil Civil Society Eminent Policy Itself Departure Any Any Circumstances Suspicion Being Standing

Superstition is the religion of feeble minds. Edmund Burke

Religion Minds Superstition Feeble

The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion. Edmund Burke

Never Give Up People Liberties Some Give Never Delusion Up

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

Work Moving On You Despair Never

People crushed by laws, have no hope but to evade power. If the laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to the law; and those who have most to hope and nothing to lose will always be dangerous. Edmund Burke

Hope Legal People Dangerous Law Enemies Will Power Crushed Lose Nothing Those No Hope Laws Most Always Who

Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny. Edmund Burke

Legal Tyranny Worst Bad Laws Sort

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

Fear Passion Mind Powers Acting Reasoning

The arrogance of age must submit to be taught by youth. Edmund Burke

Age Youth Arrogance Submit Must Taught

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

Democracy Minority Citizens Cruel Most Majority Exercising Capable

Among a people generally corrupt liberty cannot long exist. Edmund Burke

People Liberty Long Corrupt Generally Exist Cannot Among

Good order is the foundation of all things. Edmund Burke

Good All Things Order Foundation Things

People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors. Edmund Burke

People Will Ancestors Backward Posterity Never Look Who Forward

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

Beer Pressure Men Wine Aid Cares Our Consolation Moral Physical Some Mortal Countries Sorrows Opium Condition Times Brandy Tobacco

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