Quotes from Edmund Burke

Those who don't know history are doomed to repeat it.

There is, however, a limit at which forbearance ceases to be a virtue.

Good order is the foundation of all things.

An event has happened, upon which it is difficult to speak, and impossible to be silent.

They made and recorded a sort of institute and digest of anarchy, called the Rights of Man.

Young man, there is America—which at this day serves for little more than to amuse you with stories of savage men and uncouth manners; yet shall, before you taste of death, show itself equal to the whole of that commerce which now attracts the envy of the world.

Learning will be cast into the mire, and trodden down under the hoofs of a swinish multitude.

A rapacious and licentious soldiery.

In no country perhaps in the world is law so general a study [as in America]…. This study renders men acute, inquisitive, dexterous, prompt in attack, ready in defense, full of resources…. They augur misgovernment at a distance, and snuff the approach of tyranny in every tainted breeze.

I do not know the method of drawing up an indictment against an whole people.

The age of chivalry is gone. That of sophisters, economists and calculators has succeeded.

The cold neutrality of an impartial judge.

It is hard to say whether doctors of law or divinity have made the greater advances in the lucrative business of mystery.

Those who don't know history are destined to repeat it.

Education is the cheap defense of nations.

We have a degree of delight, and that no small one, in the real misfortunes and pains of others.

Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows, and of lending existence to nothing.

The age of chivalry has gone. That of sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded, and the glory of Europe is extinguished forever.

Resolved to die in the last dike of prevarication.

A people who are still, as it were, but in the gristle, and not yet hardened into the bone of manhood.

Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows.

Mere parsimony is not economy…. Expense, and great expense, may be an essential part of true economy.

Beauty in distress is much the most affecting beauty.

The arrogance of age must submit to be taught by youth.