Edmund Burke Quotes About Tyranny

Quotes about: Tyranny

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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 people never give up their liberties but under some delusion.

  Edmund Burke

  Wisdom, Freedom, Giving Up

  Speech at County Meeting of Buckinghamshire, 1784

• Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny.

  Edmund Burke

  Freedom, Carpe Diem, Law

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

• The essence of tyranny is the enforcement of stupid laws.

  Edmund Burke

  Stupid, Law, Essence

• Kings will be tyrants from policy, when subjects are rebels from principle.

  Edmund Burke

  Kings, Tyrants, Principles

  'Reflections on the Revolution in France' (1790) p. 116

• The tyranny of a multitude is a multiplied tyranny.

  Edmund Burke

  Tyrants, Tyranny, Multitudes

  George Croly, Edmund Burke (1840). “A Memoir of the Political Life of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke: With Extracts from His Writings”, p.11

• They [Americans] augur misgovernment at a distance and snuff the approach of tyranny in every tainted breeze.

  Edmund Burke

  Distance, Snuff, Breeze

  "On Moving His Resolutions for Conciliation with the Colonies," 22 Mar. 1775

• The very name of a politician, a statesman, is sure to cause terror and hatred; it has always connected with it the ideas of treachery, cruelty, fraud, and tyranny.

  Edmund Burke

  Names, Ideas, Hatred

  Edmund Burke (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Edmund Burke (Illustrated)”, p.33, Delphi Classics

• A great deal of the furniture of ancient tyranny is torn to rags; the rest is entirely out of fashion.

  Edmund Burke

  Fashion, Rags, Furniture

  Edmund Burke (1834). “The Works of the Right Hon. Edmund Burke: With a Biographical and Critical Introduction, and Portrait After Sir Joshua Reynolds”, p.126

• 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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