Edmund Burke
An Irish statesman and philosopher, considered the father of modern conservatism, who critiqued the French Revolution in 'Reflections on the Revolution in France' and advocated for gradual change.
Quotes by Edmund Burke
Through the unknown, we'll see the truth.
Obstinacy is ever most positive when it is most in the wrong.
The cold, the dead, the dark, and the absence of light are all sources of the sublime.
Power surrendered in jest is often resumed in earnest.
The wisdom of our ancestors is in the Constitution.
Revolutions are the last desperate remedy.
The chains of habit are too weak to be felt until they are too strong to be broken.
He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves, and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper.
Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom.
Your representative owes you, not his industry only, but his judgment; and he betrays, instead of serving you, if he sacrifices it to your opinion.
All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter.
The religion most prevalent in our northern country is a refinement on the worship of wealth.
It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact.
The march of the human mind is slow.
Society is indeed a contract... it becomes a partnership not only between those who are living, but between those who are living, those who are dead, and those who are to be born.