Quotes from Edmund Burke
Nothing is so fatal to religion as indifference.
- Edmund Burke
Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation.
- Edmund Burke
True humility--the basis of the Christian system--is the low but deep and firm foundation of all virtues.
- Edmund Burke
Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver.
- Edmund Burke
One that confounds good and evil is an enemy to good.
- Edmund Burke
"They defend their errors as if they were defending their inheritance."
- Edmund Burke
Politics and the pulpit are terms that have little agreement.
- Edmund Burke
Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny.
- Edmund Burke
Our manners, our civilization, and all the good things connected with manners and civilization, have, in this European world of ours, depended for ages upon two principles: I mean the spirit of a gentleman, and the spirit of religion.
- Edmund Burke
Freedom and not servitude is the cure of anarchy; as religion, and not atheism, is the true remedy of superstition.
- Edmund Burke
Make the Revolution a parent of settlement, and not a nursery of future revolutions.
- Edmund Burke
The march of the human mind is slow.
- Edmund Burke