The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 07 Quotes

“Great designs may be started and the spirit of them inspired by enthusiasts, but cool heads are required to bring them into form.”
― Edmund Burke, The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 07

“Few things discover the state of the arts amongst people more certainly than the presents that are made to them by foreigners.”
― Edmund Burke, The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 07

“More observe the characters of men than the order of things: to the one we are formed by Nature, and by that sympathy from which we are so strongly led to take a part in the passions and manners of our fellow-men; the other is, as it were, foreign and extrinsical.”
― Edmund Burke, The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 07

“I know there is an order that keeps things fast in their place: it is made to us, and we are made to it. Why not ask another wife, other children, another body, another mind?”
― Edmund Burke, The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 07

“it were better to get simplicity, if certainty is not to be had,”
― Edmund Burke, The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 07

“he was, indeed, arrived at that pitch of greatness, that the means of his ruin could only be found in his own family.”
― Edmund Burke, The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 07

“Stephen felt personally these inconveniences; but because the evil was too stubborn to be redressed at once, he resolved to proceed gradually,”
― Edmund Burke, The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 07

“they never thought of entering into any alliance against them; they equally neglected the other obvious method to prevent their incursions, which was, to carry the war into the invaders' country.”
― Edmund Burke, The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 07

“there was no foreign war, because this prince was always ready for war.”
― Edmund Burke, The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 07

“timid piety, which utterly disqualifies for government;”
― Edmund Burke, The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 07

“The Church, like every body corporate, may alter her laws without changing her identity.”
― Edmund Burke, The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 07