Tag: Quote of the Day

Nothing is so fatal to Religion as indifference which is, at least, half Infidelity.

Edmund Burke

It is the function of a judge not to make but to declare the law, according to the golden metewand of the law and not by the crooked cord of discretion.

Edmund Burke

Manners are of more importance than laws. The law can touch us here and there, now and then. Manners are what vex or soothe, corrupt or purify, exalt or debase, barbarize or refine us, by a constant, steady, uniform, insensible operation like that of the air we breathe in.

Edmund Burke

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

Edmund Burke

Men must be governed by those laws which they love. Where thirty millions are to be governed by a few thousand men, the government must be established by consent, and must be congenial to the feelings and to the habits of the people. That which creates tyranny is the imposition of a form of government contrary to the will of the governed: and even a free and equal plan of government, would be considered as despotic by those who desired to have their old laws and their ancient system.

Edmund Burke

All men that are ruined, are ruined on the side of their natural propensities.

Edmund Burke

If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free; if our wealth commands us, we are poor indeed.

Edmund Burke

Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other.

Edmund Burke

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.

Edmund Burke

Partial freedom seems to me the most invidious form of slavery.

Edmund Burke