“Nothing is so fatal to religion as indifference.”
Religion
“All human laws are, properly speaking, only declaratory they have no power over the substance of original justice.”
PowerAll Quotes by Edmund Burke
“All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter.”
Government“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“When bad men combine, the good must associate else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.”
Good“Facts are to the mind what food is to the body.”
Food“Passion for fame: A passion which is the instinct of all great souls.”
Great“The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.”
Power“Beauty is the promise of happiness.”
Beauty“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“Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation.”
Art“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“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“Nobility is a graceful ornament to the civil order. It is the Corinthian capital of polished society.”
Society“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“To tax and to please, no more than to love and to be wise, is not given to men.”
Men“I venture to say no war can be long carried on against the will of the people.”
War“Our patience will achieve more than our force.”
Patience“Never despair, but if you do, work on in despair.”
Work“You can never plan the future by the past.”
Future