Quote

It is, generally, in the season of prosperity that men discover their real temper, principles, and designs.

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
Principles
Temper
Real
Season
Men
Prosperity
Generally
Seasons
Discover
Design
Wealth
Designs

More quotes by Edmund Burke

Image
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
Image
What is it we all seek for in an election? To answer its real purposes, you must first possess the means of knowing the fitness of your man and then you must retain some hold upon him by personal obligation or dependence.
Edmund Burke
Image
The love of lucre, though sometimes carried to a ridiculous excess, a vicious excess, is the grand cause of prosperity to all States.
Edmund Burke
Image
It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact.
Edmund Burke
Image
Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants.
Edmund Burke
Image
Whenever government abandons law, it proclaims anarchy.
Edmund Burke
Image
Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other.
Edmund Burke
Image
Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.
Edmund Burke
Image
But what is liberty without wisdom, and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils for it is folly, vice, and madness, without tuition or restraint.
Edmund Burke
Image
Prejudice renders a man's virtue his habit, and a series of unconnected arts. Though just prejudice, his duty becomes a part of his nature.
Edmund Burke
Image
The only training for the heroic is the mundane.
Edmund Burke
Image
The first and simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind, is curiosity.
Edmund Burke
Image
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.
Edmund Burke
Image
Circumspection and caution are part of wisdom.
Edmund Burke
Image
Between craft and credulity, the voice of reason is stifled.
Edmund Burke
Image
No man can mortgage his injustice as a pawn for his fidelity.
Edmund Burke
Image
As mankind becomes more enlightened to know their real interests, they will esteem the value of agriculture they will find it in their natural--their destined occupation.
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
Ambition can creep as well as soar.
Edmund Burke
Image
Equity money is dynamic and debt money is static.
Edmund Burke