Edmund Burke

We have a degree of delight, and that no small one, in the real misfortunes and pains of others.

Edmund Burke

We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.

Edmund Burke

We must not always judge of the generality of the opinion by the noise of the acclamation.

Edmund Burke

We must soften into a credulity below the milkiness of infancy to think all men virtuous. We must be tainted with a malignity truly diabolical, to believe all the world to be equally wicked and corrupt.

Edmund Burke

What shadows we are, and what shadows we pursue.

Edmund Burke

When a great man has some one object in view to be achieved in a given time, it may be absolutely necessary for him to walk out of all the common roads.

Edmund Burke

When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.

Edmund Burke

Whenever government abandons law, it proclaims anarchy.

Edmund Burke

Whilst shame keeps its watch, virtue is not wholly extinguished in the heart; nor will moderation be utterly exiled from the minds of tyrants.

Edmund Burke

Woman is not made to be the admiration of all, but the happiness of one.

Edmund Burke