Quotes by Burke, Edmund

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

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

You can never plan the future by the past. >>

Quotations about Army and Navy

That's what an army is -- a mob; they don't fight with courage that's >>

We are as near to heaven by sea as by land. >>

I had rather have a plain, russet-coated Captain, that knows what he f >>

In the weakness of one kind of authority, and in the fluctuation of all, the officers of an army will remain for some time mutinous and full of faction, until some popular general, who understands the art of conciliating the soldiery, and who possesses the true spirit of command, shall draw the eyes of all men upon himself. Armies will obey him on his personal account. There is no other way of securing military obedience in this state of things.

Burke, Edmund