“The arrogance of age must submit to be taught by youth.”
Age
“It is, generally, in the season of prosperity that men discover their real temper, principles, and designs.”
MenAll Quotes by Edmund Burke
“We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.”
Change“All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent.”
Good“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“Those who don't know history are destined to repeat it.”
History“It is, generally, in the season of prosperity that men discover their real temper, principles, and designs.”
Men“Education is the cheap defense of nations.”
Education“No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.”
Fear“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“Never despair, but if you do, work on in despair.”
Work“Beauty is the promise of happiness.”
Beauty“Toleration is good for all, or it is good for none.”
Good“What ever disunites man from God, also disunites man from man.”
God“I venture to say no war can be long carried on against the will of the people.”
War“Mere parsimony is not economy. Expense, and great expense, may be an essential part in true economy.”
Great“It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact.”
Nature“Our patience will achieve more than our force.”
Patience“All human laws are, properly speaking, only declaratory they have no power over the substance of original justice.”
Power“When bad men combine, the good must associate else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.”
Good“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