The Best of Burke Quotes

“When you drive him hard, the boar will surely turn upon the hunters. If that sovereignty and their freedom cannot be reconciled, which will they take? They will cast your sovereignty in your face. No-body will be argued into slavery.”
― Edmund Burke, THOUGHTS ON THE CAUSE OF THE PRESENT DISCONTENTS VOL 1 CL

“Whilst every principle of authority and resistance has been pushed, upon both sides, as far as it would go, there is nothing so solid and certain, either in reasoning or in practice, that has not been shaken.”
― Edmund Burke, THOUGHTS ON THE CAUSE OF THE PRESENT DISCONTENTS VOL 1 CL

“[A] partial repeal, or, as the bon ton of the court then was, a modification, would have satisfied a timid, unsystematic, procrastinating Ministry, as such a measure has since done such a Ministry. A modificatio is the constant resource of weak, undeciding minds.”
― Edmund Burke, THOUGHTS ON THE CAUSE OF THE PRESENT DISCONTENTS VOL 1 CL