Edmund Burke

People crushed by law, have no hopes but from power. If laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to laws; and those who have much hope and nothing to lose, will always be dangerous.

Edmund Burke

People crushed by laws, have no hope but to evade power. If the laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to the law; and those who have most to hope and nothing to lose will always be dangerous.

Edmund Burke

People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors.

Edmund Burke

Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows, and of lending existence to nothing.

Edmund Burke

Power, in whatever hands, is rarely guilty of too strict limitations on itself.

Edmund Burke

Public life is a situation of power and energy; he trespasses against his duty who sleeps upon his watch, as well as he that goes over to the enemy.

Edmund Burke

Religion is among the most powerful causes of enthusiasm.

Edmund Burke

Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation.

Edmund Burke

Restraint and discipline and examples of virtue and justice. These are the things that form the education of the world.

Edmund Burke

Rudeness is the weak man’s imitation of strength.

Edmund Burke