Edmund Burke Quotes

Edmund Burke Quotes.

The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for ex

The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedience, and by parts.
Edmund Burke
The tyranny of a multitude is a multiplied tyranny.
Edmund Burke
Tyrants seldom want pretexts.
Edmund Burke
Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows, and of lending existence to nothing.
Edmund Burke
To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
Edmund Burke
Never despair, but if you do, work on in despair.
Edmund Burke
Whenever our neighbour’s house is on fire, it cannot be amiss for the engines to play a little on our own.
Edmund Burke
Your representative owes you, not his industry only, but his judgment; and he betrays instead of serving you if he sacrifices it to your opinion.
Edmund Burke
Kings will be tyrants from policy, when subjects are rebels from principle.
Edmund Burke
He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper.
Edmund Burke
To innovate is not to reform.
Edmund Burke
People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors.
Edmund Burke
Facts are to the mind what food is to the body.
Edmund Burke
Silence is golden but when it threatens your freedom it’s yellow.
Edmund Burke
Nothing turns out to be so oppressive and unjust as a feeble government.
Edmund Burke
Beauty is the promise of happiness.
Edmund Burke
If the people are happy, united, wealthy, and powerful, we presume the rest. We conclude that to be good from whence good is derived.
Edmund Burke