Edmund Burke was an Anglo-Irish statesman and philosopher. Born in Dublin, Burke filled in as an individual from parliament (MP) somewhere in the range of 1766 and 1794 in the House of Commons with the Whig Party in the wake of moving to London in 1750.
Edmund Burke Quotes
The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing. – Edmund Burke
When the leaders choose to make themselves bidders at an auction of popularity, their talents, in the construction of the state, will be of no service. They will become flatterers instead of legislators; the instruments, not the guides, of the people. – Edmund Burke
Your representative owes you, not his industry only, but his judgment; and he betrays instead of serving you if he sacrifices it to your opinion. – Edmund Burke
People crushed by laws, have no hope but to evade power. If the laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to the law; and those who have most to hope and nothing to lose will always be dangerous. – Edmund Burke
It is a general popular error to suppose the loudest complainers for the public to be the most anxious for its welfare. – Edmund Burke
Our patience will achieve more than our force. – Edmund Burke
It is not what a lawyer tells me I may do; but what humanity reason, and justice tell me I ought to do. – Edmund Burke
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. – Edmund Burke
Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little. – Edmund Burke
In a democracy, the majority of the citizens is capable of exercising the most cruel oppressions upon the minority. – Edmund Burke
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. – Edmund Burke
To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting. – Edmund Burke
He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper. – Edmund Burke
It is ordained in the eternal constitution of things, that men of intemperate minds cannot be free. Their passions forge their fetters. – Edmund Burke
Kings will be tyrants from policy, when subjects are rebels from principle. – Edmund Burke
By gnawing through a dike, even a rat may drown a nation. – Edmund Burke
All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent. – Edmund Burke
Hypocrisy can afford to be magnificent in its promises, for never intending to go beyond promise, it costs nothing. – Edmund Burke
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. – Edmund Burke
Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver. – Edmund Burke
