30 Edmund Burke phrases to meet the father of conservatism

Difficulty is a severe instructor.

Our country, in order to make itself loved, must be lovable.

For evil to triumph, it is enough that the good do nothing.

There are those who defend their mistakes as if they were defending an inheritance.

The example is the school of humanity, the only one that can instruct it.

To innovate is not to reform.

Those who have much to look forward to and nothing to lose will always be dangerous.

The press is the fourth power.

The use of force has only a temporary effect. It can subdue for a while, but it does not remove the need to subdue again.

It is impossible to govern a nation that must be eternally reconquered.

No one has made a greater mistake than the one who did nothing because he could only do little.

Our patience will surpass our strength.

Those who try to even out never match.

Never despair, but if you do, work in despair.

There is no security for honest men, except to believe in all the possible evil of bad men.

Nothing ends up being as oppressive and unfair as a weak government.

Age is something that doesn’t matter, unless you’re a cheese.

There is a limit to the passions of men when they act upon feelings; but none when they are under the influence of imagination.

Tolerance is either good for everyone or not good for anyone.

Superstition is the religion of the weak.

No man ever had a point of pride that did not hurt him.

Whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither, in my opinion, is secure.

Justice is by itself the immutable political foundation of civil society, and every time we move away from it, we run the risk of not doing politics.

The real danger is when freedom is bitten, for convenience and for parts.

Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver, and flattery serves people no more than kings.

Better to be despised by too anxious apprehensions than to be ruined by too confident assurance.

Geography is an earthly affair, but a heavenly science.

Terror is a passion that always produces delight when it doesn’t get too close.

It is usually in the season of prosperity that men discover their true temperament, principles, and designs.

Rudeness is the imitation of the weak man’s strength.