Collected Meditations
Showing 95 quotesThere is but one law for all, namely that law which governs all law, the law of our Creator, the law of humanity, justice, equity - the law of nature and of nations.— Edmund Burke
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Society can overlook murder, adultery or swindling; it never forgives preaching of a new gospel.— Edmund Burke
A spirit of innovation is generally the result of a selfish temper and confined views. People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors.— Edmund Burke
The effect of liberty to individuals is that they may do what they please: we ought to see what it will please them to do, before we risk congratulations.— Edmund Burke
Religious persecution may shield itself under the guise of a mistaken and over-zealous piety.— Edmund Burke
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.— Edmund Burke
Mere parsimony is not economy. Expense, and great expense, may be an essential part in true economy.— Edmund Burke
All human laws are, properly speaking, only declaratory; they have no power over the substance of original justice.— Edmund Burke
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.— Edmund Burke