Quotes by Burke, Edmund

Mere parsimony is not economy. Expense, and great expense, may be an e >>

A disposition to preserve, and an ability to improve, taken together, >>

There is a limit at which forbearance ceases to be a virtue. >>

Quotations about Parliament

Would it be possible to stand still on one spot more majestically -- w >>

You see how this House of Commons has begun to verify all the ill prop >>

You have sat too long for any good you have been doing. Depart, I say, >>

Parliament is not a congress of ambassadors from different and hostile interests; which interests each must maintain, as an agent and advocate, against other agents and advocates; but parliament is a deliberative assembly of one nation, with one interest, that of the whole; where, not local purposes, not local prejudices ought to guide, but the general good, resulting from the general reason of the whole. You choose a member indeed; but when you have chosen him, he is not a member of Bristol, but he is a member of parliament.

Burke, Edmund