“Beauty is the promise of happiness.”
Beauty
“Nothing is so fatal to religion as indifference.”
ReligionAll Quotes by Edmund Burke
“The arrogance of age must submit to be taught by youth.”
Age“Superstition is the religion of feeble minds.”
Religion“The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.”
Power“I venture to say no war can be long carried on against the will of the people.”
War“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“A State without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation.”
Change“The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.”
Good“All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent.”
Good“Education is the cheap defense of nations.”
Education“Nothing is so fatal to religion as indifference.”
Religion“Never despair, but if you do, work on in despair.”
Work“To tax and to please, no more than to love and to be wise, is not given to men.”
Men“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“Toleration is good for all, or it is good for none.”
Good“It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact.”
Nature“All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter.”
Government“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.”
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