Edmund Burke Quotes About Liberty

Quotes about: Liberty

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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

• The first and simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind, is curiosity.

  Edmund Burke

  Emotional, Curiosity, Mind

  Edmund Burke (2010). “On Taste, on the Sublime and Beautiful, Reflections on the French Revolution & a Letter to a Noble Lord”, p.29, Cosimo, Inc.

• The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion.

  Edmund Burke

  Wisdom, Freedom, Giving Up

  Speech at County Meeting of Buckinghamshire, 1784

• It is a general popular error to suppose the loudest complainers for the public to be the most anxious for its welfare.

  Edmund Burke

  Errors, Liberty, Grumbling

  'Observations on...the Present State of the Nation' (1769)

• Among a people generally corrupt liberty cannot long exist.

  Edmund Burke

  Long, People, Political

  'Letter to the Sheriffs of Bristol' (1777) p. 71

• Whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither, in my opinion, is safe.

  Edmund Burke

  Freedom, Justice, Liberty

  Edmund Burke (1999). “The Portable Edmund Burke”, p.503, Penguin

• The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedience, and by parts.

  Edmund Burke

  Liberty, Libertarian, Internet

  Edmund Burke (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Edmund Burke (Illustrated)”, p.3631, Delphi Classics

• The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.

  Edmund Burke

  Bullying, Freedom, Work

  Speech on the Middlesex Election, 7 February 1771, in 'The Speeches' (1854)

• 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

• Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny.

  Edmund Burke

  Freedom, Carpe Diem, Law

  Speech at the Guildhall, Bristol, England, 6 Sept. 1780

• Men are qualified for civil liberty in exact proportion to their disposition to put moral chains upon their own appetites…in proportion as they are more disposed to listen to the counsels of the wise and good, in preference to the flattery of knaves. Society cannot exist, unless a controlling power upon will and appetite be placed somewhere; and the less of it there is within, the more there must be without. It is ordained in the eternal constitution of things, that men of intemperate minds cannot be free. Their passions forge their fetters.

  Edmund Burke

  Wise, Passion, Men

  Letter to a Member of the National Assembly, 1791.

• All that needs to be done for evil to prevail is good men doing nothing.

  Edmund Burke

  Men, Evil, Good Man

• 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

  Wisdom, Evil, Liberty

  Edmund Burke (2005). “Burke, Select Works”, The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd.

• Liberty does not exist in the absence of morality.

  Edmund Burke

  Liberty, Doe, Morality

• Men are qualified for civil liberty in exact proportion to their disposition to put moral chains upon their own appetites.

  Edmund Burke

  Men, Liberty, Moral

  Edmund Burke (1828). “The Beauties of Burke: Consisting of Selections from His Works”, p.86

• They defend their errors as if they were defending their inheritance.

  Edmund Burke

  Failure, Errors, Political

  Edmund Burke, James BURKE (Barrister-at-Law.) (1854). “The Speeches of the Right Hon. Edmund Burke, with Memoir and Historical Introductions. By James Burke”, p.178

• That the greatest security of the people, against the encroachments and usurpations of their superiors, is to keep the Spirit of Liberty constantly awake, is an undeniable truth

  Edmund Burke

  People, Liberty, Spirit

  Edmund Burke, Arthur P.I. Samuels (2014). “The Early Life Correspondence and Writings of The Rt. Hon. Edmund Burke”, p.338, Cambridge University Press

• We must not always judge of the generality of the opinion by the noise of the acclamation.

  Edmund Burke

  Judging, Liberty, Civil Rights

  Edmund Burke (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Edmund Burke (Illustrated)”, p.3831, Delphi Classics

• Abstract liberty, like other mere abstractions, is not to be found.

  Edmund Burke

  Liberty, Abstract, Found

  Speech 'On Conciliation with America' 22 March 1775

• Liberty, without wisdom, is license.

  Edmund Burke

  Wisdom, Liberty, License

• The distinguishing part of our constitution is its liberty. To preserve that liberty inviolate, is the peculiar duty and proper trust of a member of the house of commons. But the liberty, the only liberty I mean, is a liberty connected with order, and that not only exists with order and virtue, but cannot exist at all without them. It inheres in good and steady government, as in its substance and vital principle.

  Edmund Burke

  Order, Government, Liberty

  "The Works of Edmund Burke: With a Memoir, in Three Volumes".

• My vigour relents. I pardon something to the spirit of liberty.

  Edmund Burke

  Liberty, Spirit, Pardon

  Edmund Burke (1948). “Selected Prose”

• It is better to cherish virtue and humanity, by leaving much to free will, even with some loss of the object , than to attempt to make men mere machines and instruments of political benevolence. The world on the whole will gain by a liberty, without which virtue cannot exist.

  Edmund Burke

  Loss, Men, Political

  Edmund Burke (1999). “The Portable Edmund Burke”, p.433, Penguin

• The liberty I mean is social freedom. It is that state of things in which liberty is secured by the equality of restraint. A constitution of things in which the liberty of no one man, and no body of men, and no number of men, can find means to trespass on the liberty of any person, or any description of persons, in the society. This kind of liberty is, indeed, but another name for justice.

  Edmund Burke

  Philosophy, Mean, Men

  Edmund Burke (1999). “The Portable Edmund Burke”, p.503, Penguin

• The moment you abate anything from the full rights of men to each govern himself, and suffer any artificial positive limitation upon those rights, from that moment the whole organization of government becomes a consideration of convenience.

  Edmund Burke

  Men, Rights, Organization

  Edmund Burke (1999). “The Portable Edmund Burke”, p.416, Penguin

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