Edmund Burke Quotes.
Religious persecution may shield itself under the guise of a mistaken and over-zealous piety.
The hottest fires in hell are reserved for those who remain neutral in times of moral crisis.
The tyranny of a multitude is a multiplied tyranny.
Mere parsimony is not economy. Expense, and great expense, may be an essential part in true economy.
Nothing is so fatal to religion as indifference.
But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded; and the glory of Europe is extinguished forever.
Education is the cheap defense of nations.
It is the interest of the commercial world that wealth should be found everywhere.
Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones.
The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedience, and by parts.
The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion.
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.
People must be taken as they are, and we should never try make them or ourselves better by quarreling with them.
Hypocrisy can afford to be magnificent in its promises, for never intending to go beyond promise, it costs nothing.
