Edmund Burke Quotes About Inspirational
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He that struggles with us strengthens our nerves, and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper.
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If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free; if our wealth commands us, we are poor indeed.
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The most favourable laws can do very little towards the happiness of people when the disposition of the ruling power is adverse to them.
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As the rose-tree is composed of the sweetest flowers and the sharpest thorns, as the heavens are sometimes overcast—alternately tempestuous and serene—so is the life of man intermingled with hopes and fears, with joys and sorrows, with pleasure and pain.
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Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation.
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By gnawing through a dike, even a rat may drown a nation.
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We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.
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No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.
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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.
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The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
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Superstition is the religion of feeble minds.
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[Slavery] is a weed that grows in every soil.
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Our patience will achieve more than our force.
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People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors.
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