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Edmund Burke Quotes

Total quotes: 10
“Applaud us when we run, console us when we fall, cheer us when we recover.”
— Edmund Burke, Speech at Bristol Previous to the Election
Tagged: Applaud, Console, Recovery
“Whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither, in my opinion, is safe.”
— Edmund Burke, Letter to M. de Menonville
Tagged: separation, Liberty, Justice
“Neither the few nor the many have a right to act merely by their will, in any matter connected with duty, trust, engagement, or obligation.”
— Edmund Burke, Appeal from the New Whigs to the Old
Tagged: Right, Will, Duty, Trust, Engagement, Obligation
“A state without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation.”
— Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France
Tagged: state, Change, Conservation
“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, Second Speech on Conciliation with America
Tagged: Law, Lawyer, humanity, Reason, Justice
“The use of force alone is but temporary. It may subdue for a moment; but it does not remove the necessity of subduing again: and a nation is not governed, which is perpetually to be conquered.”
— Edmund Burke, Second Speech on Conciliation with America
Tagged: force, Government, Conquer
“A conscientious man would be cautious how he dealt in blood.”
— Edmund Burke, The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 2
Tagged: Conscience, Caution, Blood
“You can never plan the future by the past.”
— Edmund Burke, Letter to a Member of the National Assembly
Tagged: Planning, Planning Ahead, Past
“There is a sort of enthusiasm in all projectors, absolutely necessary for their affairs, which makes them proof against the most fatiguing delays, the most mortifying disappointments, the most shocking insults; and, what is severer than all, the presumptuous judgement of the ignorant upon their designs.”
— Edmund Burke, The Works of Edmund Burke: Volume 9
Tagged: Enthusiasm, Disappointments, Ignorance
“Laws, like houses, lean on one another.”
— Edmund Burke, Tracts Relative to the Laws Against Popery in Ireland
Tagged: Law, foundation, Houses
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