Edmund Burke Quotes About Moderation

Quotes about: Moderation

• Whilst shame keeps its watch, virtue is not wholly extinguished in the heart; nor will moderation be utterly exiled from the minds of tyrants.

  Edmund Burke

  Heart, Tyrants, Mind

  Edmund Burke (1963). “Edmund Burke: Selected Writings and Speeches”, p.581, Transaction Publishers

• My good friends, while I do most earnestly recommend you to take care of your health and safety, as things most precious to us, I would not have that care degenerate into an effeminate and over-curious attention, which is always disgraceful to a man's self, and often troublesome to others.

  Edmund Burke

  Good Friend, Men, Self

  Edmund Burke (1852). “The Works and Correspondence Of...Edmund Burke”, p.212

• It is the nature of tyranny and rapacity never to learn moderation from the ill-success of first oppressions; on the contrary, all oppressors, all men thinking highly of the methods dictated by their nature, attribute the frustration of their desires to the want of sufficient rigor.

  Edmund Burke

  Frustration, Men, Thinking

  Edmund Burke (1999). “The Portable Edmund Burke”, p.381, Penguin

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