Quote

Liberty does not exist in the absence of morality.

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
Absence
Morality
Exist
Liberty
Doe

More quotes by Edmund Burke

Image
Early and provident fear is the mother of safety.
Edmund Burke
Image
And having looked to Government for bread, on the very first scarcity they will turn and bite the hand that fed them.
Edmund Burke
Image
Pleasure of every kind quickly satisfies.
Edmund Burke
Image
If the people are happy, united, wealthy, and powerful, we presume the rest. We conclude that to be good from whence good is derived.
Edmund Burke
Image
For there is in mankind an unfortunate propensity to make themselves, their views and their works, the measure of excellence in every thing whatsoever
Edmund Burke
Image
What shadows we are, and what shadows we pursue!
Edmund Burke
Image
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
Image
I have been told by an eminent bookseller, that in no branch of his business , after tracts of popular devotion, were so many books as those on the law exported to the Plantations .
Edmund Burke
Image
There is a boundary to men's passions when they act from feelings but none when they are under the influence of imagination.
Edmund Burke
Image
Circumstances give in reality to every political principle its distinguishing color and discriminating effect. The circumstances are what render every civil and political scheme beneficial or noxious to mankind.
Edmund Burke
Image
My vigour relents. I pardon something to the spirit of liberty.
Edmund Burke
Image
The most favourable laws can do very little towards the happiness of people when the disposition of the ruling power is adverse to them.
Edmund Burke
Image
Government is the exercise of all the great qualities of the human mind.
Edmund Burke
Image
Never, no never, did Nature say one thing, and wisdom another.
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
Somebody has said, that a king may make a nobleman but he cannot make a gentleman.
Edmund Burke
Image
A definition may be very exact, and yet go but a very little way towards informing us of the nature of the thing defined.
Edmund Burke
Image
Responsibility prevents crimes.
Edmund Burke
Image
Liberty, without wisdom, is license.
Edmund Burke
Image
Whenever government abandons law, it proclaims anarchy.
Edmund Burke