Quotes by Edmund Burke

Next to love, sympathy is the divinest passion of the human heart

#Love, #Passion, #Sympathy

The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.

#Power

I know of nothing sublime which is not some modification of power.

#Power

Those who have been once intoxicated with power, and have derived any kind of emolument...

#Power

Law and arbitrary power are at eternal enmity

#Law And Lawyers, #Power

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

#Judgement, #Opinions

There never was a bad man that had ability for good service.

#Ability

In a democracy, the majority of the citizens is capable of exercising the most cruel...

#Democracy

The first and simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind, is curiosity

#Curiosity, #Emotion

Facts are to the mind what food is to the body

#Facts, #Food

It is in the interest of the commercial world that wealth should be found everywhere

#Business

But what is liberty without wisdom, and without virtue? It is the greatest of all...

#Wisdom