Quote

To make us love our country, our country ought to be lovely.

Edmund Burke

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Edmund Burke
Age: 68 †
Born: 1729
Born: January 12
Died: 1797
Died: July 9
Philosopher
Politician
Statesman
Writer
Dublin city
Make
Love
Patriotic
Patriotism
Lovely
Ought
Country

More quotes by Edmund Burke

Image
The greatest crimes do not arise from a want of feeling for others but from an over-sensibilit y for ourselves and an over-indulgence to our own desires
Edmund Burke
Image
Guilt was never a rational thing it distorts all the faculties of the human mind, it perverts them, it leaves a man no longer in the free use of his reason, it puts him into confusion.
Edmund Burke
Image
Woman is not made to be the admiration of everybody , but the happiness of one.
Edmund Burke
Image
Despots govern by terror. They know that he who fears God fears nothing else and therefore they eradicate from the mind, through their Voltaire, their Helvetius, and the rest of that infamous gang, that only sort of fear which generates true courage.
Edmund Burke
Image
Men who undertake considerable things, even in a regular way, ought to give us ground to presume ability.
Edmund Burke
Image
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
Image
True religion is the foundation of society. When that is once shaken by contempt, the whole fabric cannot be stable nor lasting.
Edmund Burke
Image
Crimes lead into one another. They who are capable of being forgers, are capable of being incendiaries.
Edmund Burke
Image
Law and arbitrary power are at eternal enmity.
Edmund Burke
Image
Falsehood is a perennial spring.
Edmund Burke
Image
A nation without means of reform is without means of survival.
Edmund Burke
Image
Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.
Edmund Burke
Image
Though ugliness be the opposite of beauty, it is not the opposite to proportion and fitness for it is possible that a thing may be very ugly with any proportions, and with a perfect fitness for any use.
Edmund Burke
Image
No government ought to exist for the purpose of checking the prosperity of its people or to allow such a principle in its policy.
Edmund Burke
Image
Those who have been once intoxicated with power, and have derived any kind of emolument from it, even though but for one year, never can willingly abandon it. They may be distressed in the midst of all their power but they will never look to anything but power for their relief.
Edmund Burke
Image
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
Image
My vigour relents. I pardon something to the spirit of liberty.
Edmund Burke
Image
Those who attempt to level never equalize
Edmund Burke
Image
It is the nature of tyranny and rapacity never to learn moderation from the ill-success of first oppressions on the contrary, all oppressors, all men thinking highly of the methods dictated by their nature, attribute the frustration of their desires to the want of sufficient rigor.
Edmund Burke
Image
Society can overlook murder, adultery or swindling it never forgives preaching of a new gospel.
Edmund Burke