Edmund Burke Inspirational Quotes

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  The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.

  Edmund Burke

  Inspirational, Wisdom, Witty

• Our patience will achieve more than our force.

  Edmund Burke

  Inspirational, Patience, Virtue

  'Reflections on the Revolution in France' (1790) p. 249

• We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.

  Edmund Burke

  Inspirational, Friendship, Change

  Edmund Burke (1963). “Edmund Burke: Selected Writings and Speeches”, p.316, Transaction Publishers

• If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free; if our wealth commands us, we are poor indeed.

  Edmund Burke

  Inspirational, Money, Greatest Wealth

  Edmund Burke (1826). “The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke”, p.305

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

  Edmund Burke

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

  'On the Sublime and Beautiful' (1757) pt. 2, sect. 2

• By gnawing through a dike, even a rat may drown a nation.

  Edmund Burke

  Inspirational, Perseverance, May

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

  Edmund Burke

  Inspirational, Family, Memories

  Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790)

• Superstition is the religion of feeble minds.

  Edmund Burke

  Inspirational, Mind, Religion

  Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790)

• He that struggles with us strengthens our nerves, and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper.

  Edmund Burke

  Inspirational, Life, Education

  Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790)

• Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation.

  Edmund Burke

  Inspirational, Life, Art

• [Slavery] is a weed that grows in every soil.

  Edmund Burke

  Inspirational, Weed, Marijuana

  "The Works of the Right Hon. Edmund Burke: With a Biographical and Critical Introduction, and Portrait After Sir Joshua Reynolds".

• The most favourable laws can do very little towards the happiness of people when the disposition of the ruling power is adverse to them.

  Edmund Burke

  Inspirational, Law, People

  Edmund Burke (1852). “The Works and Correspondence Of...Edmund Burke”, p.73

• As the rose-tree is composed of the sweetest flowers and the sharpest thorns, as the heavens are sometimes overcast—alternately tempestuous and serene—so is the life of man intermingled with hopes and fears, with joys and sorrows, with pleasure and pain.

  Edmund Burke

  Inspirational, Pain, Flower

• The use of force alone is but temporary. It may subdue for a moment; but it does not remove the necessity of subduing again; and a nation is not governed, which is perpetually to be conquered.

  Edmund Burke

  Inspirational, Government, Doe

  Speech 'On Conciliation with America' 22 March 1775

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