Edmund Burke

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

The only infallible criterion of wisdom to vulgar minds – success.

Edmund Burke

The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.

Edmund Burke

The question is not whether you have a right to render people miserable, but whether it is not in your best interest to make them happy.

Edmund Burke

The unbought grace of life, the cheap defence of nations, the nurse of manly sentiment and heroic enterprise, is gone!

Edmund Burke

The use of force alone is but temporary. It may subdue for a moment; but it does not remove the necessity of subduing again; and a nation is not governed, which is perpetually to be conquered.

Edmund Burke

The wise determine from the gravity of the case; the irritable, from sensibility to oppression; the high minded, from disdain and indignation at abusive power in unworthy hands.

Edmund Burke

There are circumstances in which despair does not imply inactivity.

Edmund Burke

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

There is nothing in the world really beneficial that does not lie within the reach of an informed understanding and a well-protected pursuit.

Edmund Burke