Quotes by Burke, Edmund

In doing good, we are generally cold, and languid, and sluggish; and o >>

Kings will be tyrants from policy, when subjects are rebels from princ >>

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

Quotations about Society

Society is like the air, necessary to breathe but insufficient to live >>

American society is a sort of flat, fresh-water pond which absorbs sil >>

To be social is to be forgiving. >>

Society is indeed a contract. It is a partnership in all science; a partnership in all art; a partnership in every virtue, and in all perfection. As the ends of such a partnership cannot be obtained in many generations, it becomes a partnership not only between those who are living, but between those who are living, those who are dead, and those who are to be born.

Burke, Edmund