Quotes by Edmund Burke

About Edmund Burke:

Edmund Burke was an Anglo-Irish statesman born in Dublin, as well as an 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.
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Reading without reflecting is like eating without digesting.

Edmund Burke

A conscientious man would be cautious how he dealt in blood.

Edmund Burke

Certainly, Gentlemen, it ought to be the happiness and glory of a representative to live in the strictest union, the closest correspondence, and the most unreserved communication with his constituents. Their wishes ought to have great weight with him...

Edmund Burke

I have not yet lost a feeling of wonder, and of delight, that the delicate motion should reside in all the things around us, revealing itself only to him who looks for it.

Edmund Burke

All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter.

Edmund Burke

Nothing turns out to be so oppressive and unjust as a feeble government.

Edmund Burke

The person who grieves suffers his passion to grow upon him; he indulges it, he loves it; but this never happens in the case of actual pain, which no man ever willingly endured for any considerable time.

Edmund Burke

The traveller has reached the end of the journey!

Edmund Burke

If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free; if our wealth commands us, we are poor indeed.

Edmund Burke

Nothing is so fatal to religion as indifference.

Edmund Burke

Superstition is the religion of feeble minds.

Edmund Burke

Society can overlook murder, adultery or swindling; it never forgives preaching of a new gospel.

Edmund Burke

Nobility is a graceful ornament to the civil order. It is the Corinthian capital of polished society.

Edmund Burke

Never despair, but if you do, work on in despair.

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

It is, generally, in the season of prosperity that men discover their real temper, principles, and designs.

Edmund Burke

Politics and the pulpit are terms that have little agreement.

Edmund Burke

Our patience will achieve more than our force.

Edmund Burke

I venture to say no war can be long carried on against the will of the people.

Edmund Burke

Author Bio

  • NameEdmund Burke
  • DescriptionAnglo-Irish statesman
  • BornJanuary 12, 1729
  • DiedJuly 9, 1797
  • CountryIreland
  • ProfessionPolitician; Philosopher; Writer