Edmund Burke Quotes & Sayings (Page 10)

Edmund Burke quotes and sayings page 10 (statesman). These are the last 8 out of 98 quotes we have.

“To innovate is not to reform.”

“Mere parsimony is not economy. Expense, and great expense, may be an essential part in true economy.”

“If the people are happy, united, wealthy, and powerful, we presume the rest. We conclude that to be good from whence good is derived.”

“Falsehood is a perennial spring.”

“To tax and to please, no more than to love and to be wise, is not given to men.”

“The person who grieves suffers his passion to grow upon him; he indulges it, he loves it; but this never happens in the case of actual pain, which no man ever willingly endured for any considerable time.”

“Circumstances give in reality to every political principle its distinguishing color and discriminating effect. The circumstances are what render every civil and political scheme beneficial or noxious to mankind.”

“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.”