Quotes from Edmund Burke

I would rather sleep in the southern corner of a little country churchyard, than in the tombs of the Capulets.

Custom reconciles us to everything.

When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.

Wars are just to those to whom they are necessary.

War never leaves where it found a nation.

We set ourselves to bite the hand that feeds us.

The effect of liberty on individuals is that they may do what they please: we ought to see what it will please them to do, before we risk congratulations.

The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion.

The cold neutrality of an impartial judge.

Your representative owes you, not his industry only, but his judgement; and he betrays instead of serving you if he sacrifices it to your opinion.

Ambition can creep as well as soar.

A nation without the means of reform is without the means of survival.

By gnawing through a dyke, even a rat may drown a nation.

Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other.

What shadows we are, what shadows we pursue!

Superstition is the religion of feeble minds.

Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny.

The wisdom of our ancestors.

A very great part of the mischiefs that vex this world arises from words.

All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent.

The tyranny of a multitude is a multiplied tyranny.

Kings will be tyrants from policy, when subjects are rebels from principle.

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

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