There are circumstances in which despair does not imply inactivity. Edmund Burke More Quotes by Edmund Burke More Quotes From Edmund Burke Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones. Edmund Burke encouragingencouragementmind A State without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation. Edmund Burke diversitychangemean Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver. Edmund Burke flatteringflatterygiver Those who have been intoxicated with power... can never willingly abandon it. Edmund Burke term-limitspoliticalpower The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion. Edmund Burke giving-upfreedomwisdom History consists, for the greater part, of the miseries brought upon the world by pride, ambition, avarice, revenge, lust, sedition, hypocrisy, ungoverned zeal, and all the train of disorderly appetite. Edmund Burke prideambitionrevenge All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter. Edmund Burke politicalgovernmentcommitment The great inlet by which a colour for oppression has entered into the world is by one man's pretending to determine concerning the happiness of another. Edmund Burke powermenworld The first and simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind, is curiosity. Edmund Burke emotionalcuriositymind The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedience, and by parts. Edmund Burke libertarianinternetliberty You can never plan the future by the past. Edmund Burke smartinspirationtime Education is the cheap defense of nations. Edmund Burke nationsdefenseeducation Good order is the foundation of all things. Edmund Burke foundationorganizeorder By hating vices too much, they come to love men too little. Edmund Burke politicalhatemen When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle. Edmund Burke honestyintegritywar It is not what a lawyer tells me I may do; but what humanity, reason, and justice tell me I ought to do. Edmund Burke humanitylawjustice Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny. Edmund Burke carpe-diemfreedomlaw He only deserves to be remembered by posterity who treasures up and preserves the history of his ancestors. Edmund Burke rememberedancestortreasure The perfection of conversation is not to play a regular sonata, but, like the AEolian harp, to await the inspiration of the passing breeze. Edmund Burke inspirationperfectionplay Kings will be tyrants from policy, when subjects are rebels from principle. Edmund Burke tyrantsprincipleskings
