“The arrogance of age must submit to be taught by youth.”
Age
“The arrogance of age must submit to be taught by youth.”
AgeAll Quotes by Edmund Burke
“When bad men combine, the good must associate else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.”
Good“Beauty in distress is much the most affecting beauty.”
Beauty“What ever disunites man from God, also disunites man from man.”
God“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.”
Wisdom“Those who don't know history are destined to repeat it.”
History“Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom and a great empire and little minds go ill together.”
Great“Nothing is so fatal to religion as indifference.”
Religion“Society can overlook murder, adultery or swindling it never forgives preaching of a new gospel.”
Society“All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter.”
Government“We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.”
Change“It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact.”
Nature“All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent.”
Good“No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.”
Fear“All human laws are, properly speaking, only declaratory they have no power over the substance of original justice.”
Power“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.”
Great“Mere parsimony is not economy. Expense, and great expense, may be an essential part in true economy.”
Great“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.”
Hope“Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows, and of lending existence to nothing.”
Art“I venture to say no war can be long carried on against the will of the people.”
War