Quote

True humility-the basis of the Christian system-is the low but deep and firm foundation of all virtues.

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
Humility
Foundation
Deep
System
Virtues
Virtue
Firm
Christian
Basis
True
Bases
Lows

More quotes by Edmund Burke

Image
Art is a partnership not only between those who are living but between those who are dead and those who are yet to be born.
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
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
But whoever is a genuine follower of Truth, keeps his eye steady upon his guide, indifferent whither he is led, provided that she is the leader.
Edmund Burke
Image
Custom reconciles us to everything.
Edmund Burke
Image
Men who undertake considerable things, even in a regular way, ought to give us ground to presume ability.
Edmund Burke
Image
The only training for the heroic is the mundane.
Edmund Burke
Image
Learning will be cast into the mire and trodden down under the hoofs of a swinish multitude.
Edmund Burke
Image
The essence of tyranny is the enforcement of stupid laws.
Edmund Burke
Image
To be struck with His power, it is only necessary to open our eyes.
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
Evil prevails when good men fail to act.
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
Among a people generally corrupt liberty cannot long exist.
Edmund Burke
Image
The great Error of our Nature is, not to know where to stop, not to be satisfied with any reasonable Acquirement not to compound with our Condition but to lose all we have gained by an insatiable Pursuit after more.
Edmund Burke
Image
I cannot conceive how any man can have brought himself to that pitch of presumption, to consider his country as nothing but carte blanche, upon which he may scribble whatever he pleases.
Edmund Burke
Image
When you find me attempting to break into your house to take your plate, under any pretence whatsoever, but most of all under pretence of purity of religion and Christian charity shoot me for a robber and a hypocrite, as in that case I shall certainly be.
Edmund Burke
Image
Ambition can creep as well as soar.
Edmund Burke
Image
When you fear something, learn as much about it as you can. Knowledge conquers fear.
Edmund Burke
Image
Among precautions against ambition, it may not be amiss to take precautions against our own. I must fairly say, I dread our own power and our own ambition: I dread our being too much dreaded.
Edmund Burke