The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 05 Quotes

“If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free: if our wealth commands us, we are poor indeed.”
― Edmund Burke, The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 05

“We ought with reverence to approach that tremendous divinity, that loves courage, but commands counsel.”
― Edmund Burke, The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 05

“the bitter heart-burnings, and the war of tongues, which is so often the prelude to other wars.”
― Edmund Burke, The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 05

“We are not made at once to pity the oppressor and the oppressed.”
― Edmund Burke, The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 05

“all virtues are not equally becoming to all men and at all times.”
― Edmund Burke, The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 05

“I wished to warn the people against the greatest of all evils,—a blind and furious spirit of innovation, under the name of reform.”
― Edmund Burke, The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 05