The greatest crimes do not arise from a want of feeling for others but from an over-sensibility for ourselves and an over-indulgence to our own desires


Edmund Burke

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EDMUND BURKE
Next to love, sympathy is the divinest passion of the human heart
EDMUND BURKE
But the concessions of the weak are the concessions of fear.
EDMUND BURKE
Vice itself lost half its evil, by losing all its grossness.
EDMUND BURKE
What ever disunites man from God, also disunites man from man.
EDMUND BURKE
The body of all true religion consists, to be sure, in obedience to the will of the Sovereign of th...
EDMUND BURKE
The unbought grace of life, the cheap defence of nations, the nurse of manly sentiment and heroic e...
EDMUND BURKE
The men of England--the men, I mean of light and leading in England.
EDMUND BURKE
Calamity is man's true touchstone
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Illustrious Predecessor.
EDMUND BURKE
Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other.
EDMUND BURKE
A good parson once said that where mystery begins religion ends. Cannot I say, as truly at least, ...
EDMUND BURKE
When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall, one by one, an unpitied sacrifi...
EDMUND BURKE
Falsehood is a perennial spring.
EDMUND BURKE
All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing.
EDMUND BURKE
But what is liberty without wisdom and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils; for...
EDMUND BURKE
All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
EDMUND BURKE
Better be despised for too anxious apprehensions, than ruined by too confident security.
EDMUND BURKE
Hypocrisy can afford to be magnificent in its promises; for never intending to go beyond promises; i...
EDMUND BURKE
Beauty in distress is much the most affecting beauty.
EDMUND BURKE
Society can overlook murder, adultery or swindling; it never forgives preaching of a new gospel.
EDMUND BURKE
It is not what a lawyer tells me I may do; but what humanity, reason, and justice tell me I ought to...
EDMUND BURKE
The first and simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind, is curiosity.
EDMUND BURKE
Never despair, but if you do, work on in despair.
EDMUND BURKE
Frugality is founded on the principal that all riches have limits.
EDMUND BURKE
The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.
EDMUND BURKE
In a democracy, the majority of the citizens is capable of exercising the most cruel oppressions upo...
EDMUND BURKE
All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent.
EDMUND BURKE
To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
EDMUND BURKE
Slavery is a weed that grows on every soil.
EDMUND BURKE
The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
EDMUND BURKE
It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact.
EDMUND BURKE
But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded; and ...
EDMUND BURKE
The effect of liberty to individuals is that they may do what they please; we ought to see what it w...
EDMUND BURKE
He had no failings which were not owing to a noble cause; to an ardent, generous, perhaps an immoder...
EDMUND BURKE
Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones.
EDMUND BURKE