Quotes by Burke, Edmund

No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting an >>

They defend their errors as if they were defending their inheritance. >>

All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue >>

Quotations about Aristocracy

A degenerate nobleman is like a turnip. There is nothing good of him b >>

I hate the noise and hurry inseparable from great Estates and Titles, >>

If, in looking at the lives of princes, courtiers, men of rank and fas >>

Nobility is a graceful ornament to the civil order. It is the Corinthian capital of polished society.

Burke, Edmund