Authors - Edmund Burke
Brief Biography
Edmund Burke PC (12 January 1729 - 9 July 1797) was an Irish statesman, author, orator, political theorist and philosopher who, after moving to England, served for many years in the House of Commons of Great Britain as a member of the Whig party. - Wikipedia
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Quote 1592by Anonymous on 14/01/2011
Nothing is so fatal to religion as indifference.
Quote 1821by Anonymous on 16/01/2011
An event has happened, upon which it is difficult to speak, and impossible to be silent.
Quote 2217by Anonymous on 24/01/2011
The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion.
Quote 2414by Anonymous on 29/01/2011
Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle which fits them all.
Quote 2426by Anonymous on 29/01/2011
If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free; if our wealth commands us, we are poor indeed.
Quote 2498by Anonymous on 31/01/2011
Reading without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
Quote 2545by Anonymous on 02/02/2011
Never despair, but if you do, work on in despair.
Quote 2618by Anonymous on 02/02/2011
They defend their errors as if they were defending their inheritance.
Quote 2660by Anonymous on 03/02/2011
Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.
Quote 2904by Anonymous on 03/02/2011
When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.
Quote 3209by Anonymous on 05/02/2011
Toleration is good for all, or it is good for none.
Quote 3415by Anonymous on 05/02/2011
He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper.
Quote 3810by Anonymous on 10/02/2011
Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation.
Quote 4092by Anonymous on 15/02/2011
It is a general popular error to suppose the loudest complainers for the public to be the most anxious for its welfare.
Quote 4699by Anonymous on 25/02/2011
No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.
Quote 4889by Anonymous on 04/05/2011
Hypocrisy can afford to be magnificent in its promises; for never intending to go beyond promises; it costs nothing.
Quote 6673by Anonymous on 03/10/2011
No one could make a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.
Quote 9439by Anonymous on 31/07/2012
The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.
Quote 10148by Anonymous on 15/09/2012
The wise determine from the gravity of the case; the irritable, from sensibility to oppression; the high minded, from disdain and indignation at abusive power in unworthy hands.
Quote 11828by Anonymous on 25/01/2013
There is a boundary to men's passions when they act from feelings; but none when they are under the influence of imagination.
Quote 13634by Anonymous on 11/08/2013
I thought ten thousand swords must have leaped from their scabbards to avenge even a look that threatened her with insult. But the age of chivalry is gone.
