“But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded and the glory of Europe is extinguished forever.”
Age
“I venture to say no war can be long carried on against the will of the people.”
WarAll Quotes by Edmund Burke
“Never despair, but if you do, work on in despair.”
Work“Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom and a great empire and little minds go ill together.”
Great“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“Those who don't know history are destined to repeat it.”
History“It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact.”
Nature“Beauty in distress is much the most affecting beauty.”
Beauty“Education is the cheap defense of nations.”
Education“The arrogance of age must submit to be taught by youth.”
Age“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“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“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“The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.”
Good“All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter.”
Government“If you can be well without health, you may be happy without virtue.”
Health“When bad men combine, the good must associate else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.”
Good“All human laws are, properly speaking, only declaratory they have no power over the substance of original justice.”
Power“All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent.”
Good“There is a boundary to men's passions when they act from feelings but none when they are under the influence of imagination.”
Imagination“Society can overlook murder, adultery or swindling it never forgives preaching of a new gospel.”
Society