Quotes by Edmund Burke

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

#Wisdom

Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny.

#Law And Lawyers

All human laws are, properly speaking, only declaratory; they have no power over the substance...

#Law And Lawyers

Men are qualified for civil liberties in exact proportion to their disposition to put moral...

#Civil Liberties, #Justice, #Mankind

Nobody makes a greater mistake than he who does nothing because he could only do...

#Mistakes

The march of the human mind is slow

#Mind

There is a boundary to men's passions when they act from feelings; but none when...

#Passion

The person who grieves suffers his passion to grow upon him; he indulges it, he...

#Edmund Burke

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

#Edmund Burke

Beauty in distress is much the most affecting beauty.

#Edmund Burke

Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones.

#Edmund Burke

Among a people generally corrupt liberty cannot long exist.

#Edmund Burke