Edmund Burke Quotes

What is the use of discussing a man's abstract right to food or medicine? The question is upon the method of procuring and administering them. In that deliberation I shall always advise to call in the aid of the farmer and the physician rather than the professor of metaphysics.

A very great part of the mischiefs that vex this world arises from words.

The wisdom of our ancestors.

War never leaves where it found a nation.

Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny.

Nobody makes a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could only do a little.

You cannot plan the future by the past.

Superstition is the religion of feeble minds.