“It is, generally, in the season of prosperity that men discover their real temper, principles, and designs.”
Men
“The arrogance of age must submit to be taught by youth.”
AgeAll Quotes by Edmund Burke
“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“Education is the cheap defense of nations.”
Education“There is a boundary to men's passions when they act from feelings but none when they are under the influence of imagination.”
Imagination“Toleration is good for all, or it is good for none.”
Good“Nothing is so fatal to religion as indifference.”
Religion“Superstition is the religion of feeble minds.”
Religion“No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.”
Fear“Never despair, but if you do, work on in despair.”
Work“All human laws are, properly speaking, only declaratory they have no power over the substance of original justice.”
Power“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.”
Men“Society can overlook murder, adultery or swindling it never forgives preaching of a new gospel.”
Society“I venture to say no war can be long carried on against the will of the people.”
War“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.”
Nature“Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom and a great empire and little minds go ill together.”
Great“The arrogance of age must submit to be taught by youth.”
Age“It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact.”
Nature“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.”
Time“Beauty in distress is much the most affecting beauty.”
Beauty“He had no failings which were not owing to a noble cause to an ardent, generous, perhaps an immoderate passion for fame a passion which is the instinct of all great souls.”
Great