Our patience will achieve more than our force. Edmund Burke on patience
Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows, and of lending existence to nothing. Edmund Burke on poetry
When bad men combine, the good must associate else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle. Edmund Burke on politics
Politics and the pulpit are terms that have little agreement. Edmund Burke on politics
Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom and a great empire and little minds go ill together. Edmund Burke on politics
The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse. Edmund Burke on power
People crushed by laws, have no hope but to evade power. If the laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to the law and those who have most to hope and nothing to lose will always be dangerous. Edmund Burke on power
All human laws are, properly speaking, only declaratory they have no power over the substance of original justice. Edmund Burke on power
Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation. Edmund Burke on religion
Nothing is so fatal to religion as indifference. Edmund Burke on religion
Superstition is the religion of feeble minds. Edmund Burke on religion
Justice is itself the great standing policy of civil society and any eminent departure from it, under any circumstances, lies under the suspicion of being no policy at all. Edmund Burke on society
Society can overlook murder, adultery or swindling it never forgives preaching of a new gospel. Edmund Burke on society
Nobility is a graceful ornament to the civil order. It is the Corinthian capital of polished society. Edmund Burke on society
You can never plan the future by the past. Edmund Burke on time
The person who grieves suffers his passion to grow upon him he indulges it, he loves it but this never happens in the case of actual pain, which no man ever willingly endured for any considerable time. Edmund Burke on time
I venture to say no war can be long carried on against the will of the people. Edmund Burke on war
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 on wisdom
Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom and a great empire and little minds go ill together. Edmund Burke on wisdom
Never despair, but if you do, work on in despair. Edmund Burke on work