Edmund Burke

Superstition is the religion of feeble minds.

Edmund Burke

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

Terror is a passion which always produces delight when it does not press too close.

Edmund Burke

The concessions of the weak are the concessions of fear.

Edmund Burke

The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.

Edmund Burke

The greatest gift is a passion for reading.

Edmund Burke

The march of the human mind is slow.

Edmund Burke

The marketplace obliges men, whether they will or not, in pursuing their own selfish interests, to connect the general good with their own individual success.

Edmund Burke

The more accurately we search into the human mind, the stronger traces we everywhere find of the wisdom of Him who made it.

Edmund Burke

The most favourable laws can do very little towards the happiness of people when the disposition of the ruling power is adverse to them.

Edmund Burke