Quote

Tell me what are the prevailing sentiments that occupy the minds of your young peoples, and I will tell you what is to be the character of the next generation.

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
Civilization
Generations
Society
Prevailing
Tell
Occupy
Next
Peoples
Young
Sentiments
Character
Generation
Mind
Minds

More quotes by 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
The religion most prevalent in our northern colonies is a refinement on the principles of resistance: it is the dissidence of dissent, and the protestantism of the Protestant religion.
Edmund Burke
Image
Genuine simplicity of heart is a healing and cementing principle.
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
Whenever government abandons law, it proclaims anarchy.
Edmund Burke
Image
There are three estates in Parliament but in the Reporters' Gallery yonder there sits a Fourth Estate more important far than they all. It is not a figure of speech or witty saying, it is a literal fact, very momentous to us in these times.
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
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
A thing may look specious in theory, and yet be ruinous in practice a thing may look evil in theory, and yet be in practice excellent.
Edmund Burke
Image
The writers against religion, whilst they oppose every system, are wisely careful never to set up any of their own.
Edmund Burke
Image
Learning will be cast into the mire and trodden down under the hoofs of a swinish multitude.
Edmund Burke
Image
The nerve that never relaxes, the eye that never blanches, the thought that never wanders, the purpose that never wavers - these are the masters of victory.
Edmund Burke
Image
Good order is the foundation of all things.
Edmund Burke
Image
Passion for fame: A passion which is the instinct of all great souls.
Edmund Burke
Image
Circumspection and caution are part of wisdom.
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
Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants.
Edmund Burke
Image
The superfluities of a rich nation furnish a better object of trade than the necessities of a poor one. It is the interest of the commercial world that wealth should be found everywhere.
Edmund Burke
Image
Men have no right to what is not reasonable, and to what is not for their benefit.
Edmund Burke
Image
Facts are to the mind what food is to the body.
Edmund Burke