I have not yet lost a feeling of wonder, and of delight, that the delicate motion should reside in all the surrounding things, revealing itself only to him who looks for it.

— Edmund Burke

It is generally, in the season of prosperity that men discover their real temper, principles and design.

— Edmund Burke

It is not what a lawyer tells me I may do; but what humanity, reason, and justice tell me I ought to do.

— Edmund Burke

It is ordained in the eternal constitution of things, that men of intemperate minds cannot be free. Their passions forge their fetters.

— Edmund Burke

It is our ignorance of things that causes all our admiration and chiefly excites our passions.

— Edmund Burke

It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact.

— Edmund Burke

I would rather sleep in the southern corner of a little country churchyard than in the tombs of the Capulets.

— Edmund Burke

Justice is itself the great standing policy of civil society; and any eminent departure from it, under any circumstances, lies under the suspicion of being no policy at all.

— Edmund Burke

Laws, like houses, lean on one another.

— Edmund Burke

Liberty must be limited in order to be possessed.

— Edmund Burke