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Edmund Burke Quotes

Irish - Statesman | January 12, 1729 - July 9, 1797

If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free; if our wealth commands us, we are poor indeed.

Money Free Rich Wealth Poor Us

He had no failings which were not owing to a noble cause; to an ardent, generous, perhaps an immoderate passion for fame; a passion which is the instinct of all great souls.

Passion Great Fame Noble Generous

Mere parsimony is not economy. Expense, and great expense, may be an essential part in true economy.

Great True Economy May Essential

Passion for fame: A passion which is the instinct of all great souls.

Passion Great Famous Fame Instinct

The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedience, and by parts.

Liberty True Danger Away Parts

I have never yet seen any plan which has not been mended by the observations of those who were much inferior in understanding to the person who took the lead in the business.

Business Understanding Plan Person

Circumstances give in reality to every political principle its distinguishing color and discriminating effect. The circumstances are what render every civil and political scheme beneficial or noxious to mankind.

Color Reality Political Circumstances

To tax and to please, no more than to love and to be wise, is not given to men.

Love Men Wise Tax More To Love

Whilst shame keeps its watch, virtue is not wholly extinguished in the heart; nor will moderation be utterly exiled from the minds of tyrants.

Heart Will Minds Virtue Shame Watch

Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows, and of lending existence to nothing.

Art Poetry Shadows Nothing Existence

Whenever our neighbour's house is on fire, it cannot be amiss for the engines to play a little on our own.

Fire House Play Little Own Cannot

The march of the human mind is slow.

Mind Slow March Human Human Mind

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