A disposition to preserve, and an ability to improve, taken together, would be my standard of a statesman.
Edmund Burke
A spirit of innovation is generally the result of a selfish temper and confined views. People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors.
Edmund Burke
A State without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation.
Edmund Burke
All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter.
Edmund Burke
All human laws are, properly speaking, only declaratory; they have no power over the substance of original justice.
Edmund Burke
All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
Edmund Burke
All that's necessary for the forces of evil to win in the world is for enough good men to do nothing.
Edmund Burke
Ambition can creep as well as soar.
Edmund Burke
Among a people generally corrupt liberty cannot long exist.
Edmund Burke
Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones.
Edmund Burke
Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny.
Edmund Burke
Beauty in distress is much the most affecting beauty.
Edmund Burke
Beauty is the promise of happiness.
Edmund Burke
But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded; and the glory of Europe is extinguished forever.
Edmund Burke
But what is liberty without wisdom, and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils; for it is folly, vice, and madness, without tuition or restraint.
Edmund Burke
By gnawing through a dike, even a rat may drown a nation.
Edmund Burke
Circumstances give in reality to every political principle its distinguishing color and discriminating effect. The circumstances are what render every civil and political scheme beneficial or noxious to mankind.
Edmund Burke
Custom reconciles us to everything.
Edmund Burke
Education is the cheap defense of nations.
Edmund Burke
Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other.
Edmund Burke
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Biography
Type: Statesman
Nationality: Irish
Born: January 12, 1729
Died: July 9, 1797
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