Edmund Burke
sitemanagerHe that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper.
Edmund Burke
Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny.
Edmund Burke
When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.
Edmund Burke
Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.
Edmund Burke
No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.
Edmund Burke
You can never plan the future by the past.
Edmund Burke
Among a people generally corrupt liberty cannot long exist.
Edmund Burke
Toleration is good for all, or it is good for none.
Edmund Burke
The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion.
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
All that is required for evil to prevail is for good men to do nothing.
Edmund Burke
They defend their errors as if they were defending their inheritance.
Edmund Burke
Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation.
Edmund Burke
Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle which fits them all.
Edmund Burke
Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other.
Edmund Burke
Never despair, but if you do, work on in despair.
Edmund Burke
An event has happened, upon which it is difficult to speak, and impossible to be silent.
Edmund Burke
It is a general popular error to suppose the loudest complainers for the public to be the most anxious for its welfare.
Edmund Burke
Reading without reflecting is like eating without digesting.