Edmund Burke Quotes About Greatness

Quotes about: Greatness

• It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact.

  Edmund Burke

  Nature, Greatness, Statistics

  Speech 'On American Taxation' 19 April 1774

• Great men are the guideposts and landmarks in the state.

  Edmund Burke

  Greatness, Men, States

  Edmund Burke (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Edmund Burke (Illustrated)”, p.2433, Delphi Classics

• The great must submit to the dominion of prudence and of virtue, or none will long submit to the dominion of the great.

  Edmund Burke

  Greatness, Long, Dominion

  Edmund Burke (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Edmund Burke (Illustrated)”, p.3765, Delphi Classics

• Great men are never sufficiently shown but in struggles.

  Edmund Burke

  Struggle, Greatness, Men

  Edmund Burke (1852). “The Works and Correspondence Of...Edmund Burke”, p.164

• I do not hesitate to say that the road to eminence and power, from an obscure condition, ought not to be made too easy, nor a thing too much of course. If rare merit be the rarest of all things, it ought to pass through some sort of probation. The temple of honor ought to be seated on an eminence. If it be open through virtue, let it be remembered, too, that virtue is never tried but by some difficulty and some struggle.

  Edmund Burke

  Struggle, Greatness, Honor

  Edmund Burke (1790). “Reflections on the Revolution in France, and on the proceedings in certain societies in London, relative to that event. In a letter intended to have been sent to a gentleman in Paris ... The seventh edition”, p.74

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