Edmund Burke

Good order is the foundation of all good things.

Edmund Burke

If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free: if our wealth commands us, we are poor indeed.

Edmund Burke

No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.

Edmund Burke

Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.

Edmund Burke

Those who don’t know history are destined to repeat it.

Edmund Burke

To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.

Edmund Burke

A disposition to preserve, and an ability to improve, taken together, would be my standard of a statesman.

Edmund Burke

Never apologise for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologise for the truth.

Edmund Burke

A coward’s courage is in his tongue.

Edmund Burke

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