Quotes from Edmund Burke
The only thing for evil to triumph in the world is for good men not to act.
— Edmund Burke
He that struggles with us strengthens our nerves, and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper.
— Edmund Burke
THE CHARACTERISTIC passion of Burke's life was his love of order.
— Edmund Burke
The wild gas, the fixed air is plainly broke loose: but we ought to suspend our judgments until the first effervescence is a little subsided, till the liquor is cleared, and until we see something deeper than the agitation of the troubled and frothy surface. [Alluding to Joseph Priestley's Observations on Air]
— Edmund Burke
We set ourselves to bite the hand that feeds us
— Edmund Burke
Great men are never sufficiently shown but in struggles.
— Edmund Burke
The only infallible criterion of wisdom to vulgar minds - success.
— Edmund Burke
Mere parsimony is not economy . . . expense, and great expense, may be an essential part of true economy.
— Edmund Burke
There are also many descriptions in the poets and orators, which owe their sublimity to a richness and profusion of images, in which the mind is so dazzled as to make it impossible to attend to that exact coherence and agreement of the allusions, which we should require on every other occasion.
— Edmund Burke
The conduct of a losing party never appears right: at least it never can possess the only infallible criterion of wisdom to vulgar judgements-success.
— Edmund Burke
The bitter heart-burnings, and the war of tongues, which is so often the prelude to other wars.
— Edmund Burke
Oppression makes wise men mad; but the distemper is still the madness of the wise, which is better than the sobriety of fools.
— Edmund Burke