A biography for Edmund Burkehasn’t been written yet.
“הרגש הפשוט והראשוני שנמצא באדם הוא הסקרנות.”
“חוקים רעים הם הרודנות הגרועה ביותר.”
“סדר הוא היסוד לכול הדברים הטובים.”
“תכונות טובות ומעשים ראויים נובעים מפשרה.”
“שום התקדמות אינה יכולה להישען רק על התכנון המוקדם.”
“אי אפשר לתכנן את העתיד על פי העבר.”
“הסבלנות שלנו תשיג יותר מכוח.”
“אנו מתרגלים לכול.”
“The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedience, and by parts.”
“I have never yet seen any plan which has not been mended by the observations of those who were much inferior in understanding to the person who took the lead in the business.”
“He had no failings which were not owing to a noble cause; to an ardent, generous, perhaps an immoderate passion for fame; a passion which is the instinct of all great souls.”
“Society is indeed a contract ... it becomes a participant not only between those who are living, those who are dead, and those who are to be born.”
“It is a general popular error to suppose the loudest complainers for the public to be the most anxious for its welfare.”
“Nothing turns out to be so oppressive and unjust as a feeble government.”
“But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded; and the glory of Europe is extinguished forever.”
“It is not what a lawyer tells me I may do; but what humanity, reason, and justice tell me I ought to do.”
“It is ordained in the eternal constitution of things, that men of intemperate minds cannot be free. Their passions forge their fetters.”
“You can never plan the future by the past.”
“Whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither, in my opinion, is safe.”
“Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom; and a great empire and little minds go ill together.”