Surely the church is a place where one day's truce ought to be allowed to the dissensions and animosities of mankind. Edmund Burke More Quotes by Edmund Burke More Quotes From Edmund Burke To speak of atrocious crime in mild language is treason to virtue. Edmund Burke virtue language speak The esteem of wise and good men is the greatest of all temporal encouragements to virtue; and it is a mark of an abandoned spirit to have no regard to it. Edmund Burke good-man encouragement wise Religion is among the most powerful causes of enthusiasm. Edmund Burke causes powerful enthusiasm Taste and elegance, though they are reckoned only among the smaller and secondary morals, yet are of no mean importance in the regulations of life. A moral taste is not of force to turn vice into virtue; but it recommends virtue with something like the blandishments of pleasure, and it infinitely abates the evils of vice. Edmund Burke vices evil mean Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows, and of lending existence to nothing. Edmund Burke shadow poetry art The people of England well know that the idea of inheritance furnishes a sure principle of conservation and a sure principle of transmission, without at all excluding a principle of improvement. Edmund Burke principles people ideas If we owned the property, we will be free and prosperous. If so they regain control, we will become poor Edmund Burke property poor ifs When the leaders choose to make themselves bidders at an auction of popularity, their talents, in the construction of the state, will be of no service. They will become flatterers instead of legislators; the instruments, not the guides, of the people. Edmund Burke leader auctions people A speculative despair is unpardonable where it our duty to act. Edmund Burke despair duty Old religious factions are volcanoes burned out; on the lava and ashes and squalid scoriae of old eruptions grow the peaceful olive, the cheering vine and the sustaining corn. Edmund Burke volcanoes cheer religious Party is a body of men united, for promoting by their joint endeavours the national interest, upon some particular principle in which they are all agreed. Edmund Burke party body men All government is founded on compromise and banter. Edmund Burke banter compromise government Curiosity is the most superficial of all the affections; it changes its object perpetually; it has an appetite which is very sharp, but very easily satisfied, and it has always an appearance of giddiness, restlessness and anxiety. Edmund Burke affection anxiety curiosity Government is the exercise of all the great qualities of the human mind. Edmund Burke government mind exercise Men are as much blinded by the extremes of misery as by the extremes of prosperity. Edmund Burke prosperity misery men Oppression makes wise men mad; but the distemper is still the madness of the wise, which is better than the sobriety of fools. Edmund Burke mad wise men It ought to be the happiness and glory of a representative to live in the strictest union, the closest correspondence, and the most unreserved communication with his constituents. Their wishes ought to have great weight with him; their opinion, high respect; their business, unremitted attention. Edmund Burke communication wish attention There are cases in which a man would be ashamed not to have been imposed upon. There is a confidence necessary to human intercourse, and without which men are often more injured by their own suspicions than they would be by the perfidy of others. Edmund Burke knavery would-be men It is by imitation, far more than by precept, that we learn everything; and what we learn thus, we acquire not only more effectually, but more pleasantly. Edmund Burke acquire imitation Humanity cannot be degraded by humiliation. Edmund Burke humiliation humility humanity
