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.

Quote by Edmund Burke

Topics: Wisdom Quotes

Your representative owes you, not his industry only, but his judgment; and he betrays, instead...

Your representative owes you, not his industry only, but his judgment; and he betrays, instead...

All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is...

All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is...

To tax and to please, no more than to love and to be wise, is...

To tax and to please, no more than to love and to be wise, is...

Superstition is the religion of feeble minds

Superstition is the religion of feeble minds

The most important of all revolutions, a revolution in sentiments, manners and moral opinions.

The most important of all revolutions, a revolution in sentiments, manners and moral opinions.

Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other.

Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other.

The traveller has reached the end of the journey!

The traveller has reached the end of the journey!

Poetry, with all its obscurity, has a more general as well as a more powerful...

Poetry, with all its obscurity, has a more general as well as a more powerful...

I have in general no very exalted opinion of the virtue of paper government.

I have in general no very exalted opinion of the virtue of paper government.

But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded;...

But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded;...

You can never plan the future by the past.

You can never plan the future by the past.

People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors.

People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors.

Public calamity is a mighty leveler

Public calamity is a mighty leveler

The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do...

The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do...

I venture to say no war can be long carried on against the will of...

I venture to say no war can be long carried on against the will of...

There is a courageous wisdom; there is also a false, reptile prudence, the result not...

There is a courageous wisdom; there is also a false, reptile prudence, the result not...

Education is the cheap defense of nations

Education is the cheap defense of nations

People crushed by laws, have no hope but to evade power. If the laws are...

People crushed by laws, have no hope but to evade power. If the laws are...

A State without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation.

A State without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation.

In effect, to follow, not to force the public inclination; to give a direction, a...

In effect, to follow, not to force the public inclination; to give a direction, a...