Edmund Burke Quotes About Prudence

Quotes about: Prudence

• Rage and frenzy will pull down more in half an hour than prudence, deliberation, and foresight can build up in a hundred years.

  Edmund Burke

  Years, Evil, Half

  Edmund Burke, Christian ENGLISH (pseud.) (1861). “Liberation tested by Philosophy and Experience. In “Reflections on the French Revolution,” etc. [The dedication signed: Christian English.]”, p.14

• There is a courageous wisdom; there is also a false, reptile prudence, the result not of caution but of fear.

  Edmund Burke

  Courage, Fear, Reptiles

  Edmund Burke (1807). “The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke”, p.317

• 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

• Prudence is not only the first in rank of the virtues political and moral, but she is the director and regulator, the standard of them all.

  Edmund Burke

  Political, Directors, Firsts

  Edmund Burke (1804). “Maxims and opinions, moral, political and economical, with characters, from the works of ... Edmund Burke”, p.53

• If the prudence of reserve and decorum dictates silence in some circumstances, in others prudence of a higher order may justify us in speaking our thoughts.

  Edmund Burke

  Order, Silence, May

  Edmund Burke (1912). “Reflections on the French Revolution”, p.9, CUP Archive

• Prudence is a quality incompatible with vice, and can never be effectively enlisted in its cause.

  Edmund Burke

  Quality, Vices, Causes

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