Custom reconciles us to everything. Edmund Burke More Quotes by Edmund Burke More Quotes From Edmund Burke A coward's courage is in his tongue. Edmund Burke cowardice tongue coward Laws are commanded to hold their tongues among arms; and tribunals fall to the ground with the peace they are no longer able to uphold. Edmund Burke law war fall Frugality is founded on the principal that all riches have limits. Edmund Burke frugality riches limits Tyrants seldom want pretexts. Edmund Burke tyrants war peace The march of the human mind is slow. Edmund Burke march progress mind Falsehood is a perennial spring. Edmund Burke liars spring lying The method of teaching which approaches most nearly to the method of investigation is incomparably the best. Edmund Burke investigation method teaching There is a time when the hoary head of inveterate abuse will neither draw reverence nor obtain protection. Edmund Burke protection reverence abuse It is for the most part in our skill in manners, and in the observations of time and place and of decency in general, that what is called taste by way of distinction consists; and which is in reality no other than a more refined judgment. Edmund Burke skills reality way Many of the greatest tyrants on the records of history have begun their reigns in the fairest manner. But the truth is, this unnatural power corrupts both the heart and the understanding. Edmund Burke tyrants political heart The poorest being that crawls on earth, contending to save itself from injustice and oppression, is an object respectable in the eyes of God and man. Edmund Burke eye earth men There is a wide difference between admiration and love. The sublime, which is the cause of the former, always dwells on great objects and terrible; the latter on small ones and pleasing; we submit to what we admire, but we love what submits to us: in one case we are forced, in the other, we are flattered, into compliance. Edmund Burke sublime differences and-love In the groves of their academy, at the end of every vista, you see nothing but the gallows. Edmund Burke grove prejudice ends Responsibility prevents crimes. Edmund Burke crime prison responsibility It has all the contortions of the sibyl without the inspiration. Edmund Burke inspiration It looks to me to be narrow and pedantic to apply the ordinary ideas of criminal justice to this great public contest. I do not know the method of drawing up an indictment against a whole people. Edmund Burke drawing people ideas Some decent regulated pre-eminence, some preference (not exclusive appropriation) given to birth, is neither unnatural, nor unjust, nor impolite. Edmund Burke ancestry unjust birth I cannot conceive how any man can have brought himself to that pitch of presumption, to consider his country as nothing but carte blanche, upon which he may scribble whatever he pleases. Edmund Burke may men country It is hard to say whether doctors of law or divinity have made the greater advances in the lucrative business of mystery. Edmund Burke doctors law justice I take toleration to be a part of religion. I do not know which I would sacrifice; I would keep them both: it is not necessary that I should sacrifice either. Edmund Burke sacrifice should knows
