Edmund Burke Quotes — Page 24

Philosopher, Politician

Philosophical

“It is very rare, indeed, for men to be wrong in their feelings concerning public misconduct; as rare to be right in their speculations upon the cause of it. I have constantly observed that the generality of people are fifty years, at least, behind in their politics.”

People Men Years

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Edmund Burke

Philosopher, Politician

Funny

“In doing good, we are generally cold, and languid, and sluggish; and of all things afraid of being too much in the right. But theworks of malice and injustice are quite in another style. They are finished with a bold, masterly hand; touched as they are with the spirit of those vehement passions that call forth all our energies, whenever we oppress and persecute.”

Hands Passion Style

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Philosophical

“Great men are the guideposts and landmarks in the state.”

Men Greatness

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Grieving

“No sound ought to be heard in the church but the healing voice of Christian charity.”

Christian Voice

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Philosophical

“For as wealth is power, so all power will infallibly draw wealth to itself by some means or other; and when men are left no way of ascertaining their profits but by their means of obtaining them, those means will be increased to infinity.”

Mean Politics Power

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Philosophical

“Taxing is an easy business. Any projector can contrive new impositions; any bungler can add to the old; but is it altogether wise to have no other bounds to your impositions than the patience of those who are to bear them?”

Wise Business Add

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Philosophical

“Wise men will apply their remedies to vices, not to names; to the causes of evil which are permanent, not the occasional organs by which they act, and the transitory modes in which they appear.”

Men Names Wise

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Philosophical

“Virtue will catch as well as vice by contact; and the public stock of honest manly principle will daily accumulate. We are not too nicely to scrutinize motives as long as action is irreproachable. It is enough (and for a worthy man perhaps too much) to deal out its infamy to convicted guilt and declared apostasy.”

Men Long Guilt

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Philosophical

“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.”

People Ideas Drawing

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Philosophical

“Learning will be cast into the mire and trodden down under the hoofs of a swinish multitude.”

Science Learning Casts

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Philosophical

“It is in the relaxation of security; it is in the expansion of prosperity; it is in the hour of dilatation of the heart, and of its softening into festivity and pleasure, that the real character of men is discerned.”

Heart Real Character

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Curious

“Some degree of novelty must be one of the materials in almost every instrument which works upon the mind; and curiosity blends itself, more or less, with all our pleasures.”

Mind Degrees Curiosity

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