There is nothing that God has judged good for us that He has not given us the means to accomplish, both in the natural and the moral world. Edmund Burke More Quotes by Edmund Burke More Quotes From Edmund Burke I own that there is a haughtiness and fierceness in human nature which will cause innumerable broils, place men in what situation you please. Edmund Burke haughtiness humanity men Our manners, our civilization, and all the good things connected with manners and civilization, have, in this European world of ours, depended for ages upon two principles: I mean the spirit of a gentleman, and the spirit of religion. Edmund Burke civilization two mean Futurity is the great concern of mankind. Edmund Burke concern mankind Man is by his constitution a religious animal. Edmund Burke religious animal men Flattery is no more than what raises in a man's mind an idea of a preference which he has not. Edmund Burke mind men ideas When any work seems to have required immense force and labor to effect it, the idea is grand. Edmund Burke force labor ideas The question is not whether you have a right to render people miserable, but whether it is not in your best interest to make them happy. Edmund Burke miserable interest people Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver; and adulation is not of more service to the people than to kings. Edmund Burke flattery kings people Is it in destroying and pulling down that skill is displayed? The shallowest understanding, the rudest hand, is more than equal to that task. Edmund Burke understanding skills hands Unsociable humors are contracted in solitude, which will, in the end, not fail of corrupting the understanding as well as the manners, and of utterly disqualifying a man for the satisfactions and duties of life. Men must be taken as they are, and we neither make them or ourselves better by flying from or quarreling with them. Edmund Burke understanding taken men Great men are never sufficiently shown but in struggles. Edmund Burke greatness struggle men The grave is a common treasury, to which we must all be taken. Edmund Burke graves taken common It is known that the taste--whatever it is--is improved exactly as we improve our judgment, by extending our knowledge, by a steady attention to our object, and by frequent exercise. Edmund Burke taste exercise attention Refined policy ever has been the parent of confusion, and ever will be so as long as the world endures. Plain good intention, which is as easily discovered at the first view as fraud is surely detected at last, is of no mean force in the government of mankind. Edmund Burke government views mean To be struck with His power, it is only necessary to open our eyes. Edmund Burke eye god Expense, and great expense, may be an essential part in true economy. If parsimony were to be considered as one of the kinds of that virtue, there is, however, another and a higher economy. Economy is a distinctive virtue, and consists not in saving, but in selection. Edmund Burke saving essentials may The cause of a wrong taste is a defect of judgment. Edmund Burke judgment causes taste I do ride contend against the advantages of distrust. In the world we live in, it is but too necessary. Some of old called it the very sinews of discretion. Edmund Burke distrust advantage world Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom; and a great empire and little minds go ill together. Edmund Burke politics mind together Fellowship in treason is a bad ground of confidence. Edmund Burke treason fellowship
