Edmund Burke Quotes

Those who don't know history are destined to repeat it.
To innovate is not to reform.
To make us love our country, our country ought to be lovely.
To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
To tax and to please, no more than to love and to be wise, is not given to men.
Toleration is good for all, or it is good for none.
Tyrants seldom want pretexts.
Under the pressure of the cares and sorrows of our mortal condition, men have at all times, and in all countries, called in some physical aid to their moral consolations - wine, beer, opium, brandy, or tobacco.
We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.
What ever disunites man from God, also disunites man from man.
When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.
When the leaders choose to make themselves bidders at an auction of popularity, their talents, in the construction of the state, will be of no service. They will become flatterers instead of legislators; the instruments, not the guides, of the people.
Whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither, in my opinion, is safe.
Whenever our neighbour's house is on fire, it cannot be amiss for the engines to play a little on our own.
Whilst shame keeps its watch, virtue is not wholly extinguished in the heart; nor will moderation be utterly exiled from the minds of tyrants.
You can never plan the future by the past.
Your representative owes you, not his industry only, but his judgment; and he betrays instead of serving you if he sacrifices it to your opinion.
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Edmund Burke
Profession
Statesman
BirthDate
12 January, 1729
DeathDate
09 July, 1797
Country
Ireland
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