Edmund Burke Quotes About Revolution

Quotes about: Revolution

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

  Edmund Burke

  Wisdom, Freedom, Giving Up

  Speech at County Meeting of Buckinghamshire, 1784

• A great empire and little minds go ill together.

  Edmund Burke

  Mind, Together, Littles

  Speech 'On Conciliation with America' 22 March 1775

• The most important of all revolutions, a revolution in sentiments, manners and moral opinions.

  Edmund Burke

  Important, Revolution, Opinion

  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”, p.119

• General rebellions and revolts of a whole people never were encouraged now or at any time. They are always provoked.

  Edmund Burke

  Freedom, People, Democracy

  Edmund Burke (1807). “The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke”, p.106

• By this unprincipled facility of changing the state as often, and as much, and in as many ways as there are floating fancies or fashions, the whole chain and continuity of the commonwealth would be broken. No one generation could link with the other. Men would become little better than the flies of a summer.

  Edmund Burke

  Change, Summer, Fashion

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

• Make the Revolution a parent of settlement, and not a nursery of future revolutions.

  Edmund Burke

  Parent, Revolution, Nursery

  'Reflections on the Revolution in France' (1790) p. 38

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