Quotes from Edmund Burke

An appearance of delicacy, and even fragility, is almost essential to beauty.

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

I have never yet seen any plan which has not been mended by the observations of those who were much inferior in understanding to the person who took the lead in the business.

Fellowship in treason is a bad ground of confidence.

The body of all true religion consists, to be sure, in obedience to the will of the Sovereign of the world, in a confidence in His declarations, and in imitation of His perfections.

A coward's courage is in his tongue.

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.

If you can be well without health, you may be happy without virtue.

Restraint and discipline and examples of virtue and justice. These are the things that form the education of the world.

The first and simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind, is curiosity.

All men have equal rights, but not to equal things.

For there is in mankind an unfortunate propensity to make themselves, their views and their works, the measure of excellence in every thing whatsoever

People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors.

No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.

The concessions of the weak are the concessions of fear.

No power so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.

No passion so effectively robs the mind of its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.

Silence is golden but when it threatens your freedom it's yellow.

In a democracy, the majority of the citizens is capable of exercising the most cruel oppressions upon the minority.

General rebellions and revolts of a whole people never were encouraged now or at any time. They are always provoked.

Depend upon it that the lovers of freedom will be free.

Among a people generally corrupt, liberty cannot long exist.

Good company, lively conversation, and the endearments of friendship fill the mind with great pleasure.

Facts are to the mind what food is to the body