Quotes by Edmund Burke

“Our patience will achieve more than our force.””

“Never apologise for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologise for the truth.””

“It is ordained in the eternal constitution of things, that men of intemperate minds cannot be free. Their passions forge their fetters.””

“Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods."[Preface to (1794)]””

“Liberty does not exist in the absence of morality.””

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

“No power so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.””

“He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper.””

“Never despair, but if you do, work on in despair.””

“Among a people generally corrupt, liberty cannot long exist.””

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

“It is a general popular error to imagine the loudest complainers for the public to be the most anxious for its welfare.””