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A nation without means of reform is a nation without means of survival.
| Edmund Burke | 
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A very great part of the mischiefs that vex this world arise from words.
| Edmund Burke | 
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Education is the chief defence of nations.
| Edmund Burke | 
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Every politician ought to sacrifice to the graces, and to join compliance with reason.
| Edmund Burke | 
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Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants.
| Edmund Burke | 
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Justice is itself the great standing policy of civil society; and any departure from it, under any circumstance, lies under the suspicion of being no policy at all.
| Edmund Burke | 
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Kings will be tyrants from policy, when subjects are rebels from principle.
| Edmund Burke | 
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Liberty, too, must be limited, in order to be possessed.
| Edmund Burke | 
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Manners are of more importance than laws.
| Edmund Burke | 
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No passion so effectively robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.
| Edmund Burke | 
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Our patience will achieve more than our force.
| Edmund Burke | 
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Passion for fame : a passion which is the instinct of all great souls.
| Edmund Burke | 
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The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.
| Edmund Burke | 
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The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
| Edmund Burke | 
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There never was a bad man that had ability for good service.
| Edmund Burke | 
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