Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows, and of lending existence to nothing. -Edmund Burke Poetry
People crushed by laws, have no hope but to evade power. If the laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to the law; and those who have most to hope and nothing to lose will always be dangerous. -Edmund Burke Legal
When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle. -Edmund Burke Men
A State without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation. -Edmund Burke Change
Nobility is a graceful ornament to the civil order. It is the Corinthian capital of polished society. -Edmund Burke Society
All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter. -Edmund Burke Government
People crushed by laws, have no hope but to evade power. If the laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to the law; and those who have most to hope and nothing to lose will always be dangerous. -Edmund Burke Power
All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent. -Edmund Burke Good
When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle. -Edmund Burke Politics
It is not what a lawyer tells me I may do; but what humanity, reason, and justice tell me I ought to do. -Edmund Burke Legal
Justice is itself the great standing policy of civil society; and any eminent departure from it, under any circumstances, lies under the suspicion of being no policy at all. -Edmund Burke Legal
We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature. -Edmund Burke Change
If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free; if our wealth commands us, we are poor indeed. -Edmund Burke Money
No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear. -Edmund Burke Fear
