Edmund Burke

No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.

No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.

Actions • Fear • Mindfulness

All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter.

All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter.

Cooperation • Government • Negotiation

Our patience will achieve more than our force.

Our patience will achieve more than our force.

Achievements • Determination • Patience

When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.

When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.

Sacrifice • Struggle • Unity

The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.

The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.

Actions • Morality • Responsibility

The arrogance of age must submit to be taught by youth.

The arrogance of age must submit to be taught by youth.

Age • Humility • Teaching

Liberty must be limited in order to be possessed.

Liberty must be limited in order to be possessed.

Freedom • Government • Laws

The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.

The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.

Abuse • Leadership • Politics

If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free; if our wealth commands us, we are poor indeed.

If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free; if our wealth commands us, we are poor indeed.

Freedom • Power • Success

To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.

To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.

Knowledge • Learning • Reading

Nothing turns out to be so oppressive and unjust as a feeble government.

Nothing turns out to be so oppressive and unjust as a feeble government.

Authority • Government • Injustice

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.

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.

Liberty • Virtue • Wisdom

We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.

We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.

Change • Laws • Nature

Education is the cheap defense of nations.

Education is the cheap defense of nations.

Economics • Education • Nation

Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation.

Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation.

Human • Improvement • Philosophy

People crushed by laws, have no hope but to evade power. If the laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to the law; and those who have most to hope and nothing to lose will always be dangerous.

People crushed by laws, have no hope but to evade power. If the laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to the law; and those who have most to hope and nothing to lose will always be dangerous.

Danger • Laws • Power

Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.

Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.

Actions • Improvement • Motivational

Beauty is the promise of happiness.

Beauty is the promise of happiness.

Beauty • Happiness • Promise

Beauty in distress is much the most affecting beauty.

Beauty in distress is much the most affecting beauty.

Affection • Beauty • Distress