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Danh ngôn của Edmund Burke (Sứ mệnh: 1)

Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.
When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.
There is a boundary to men's passions when they act from feelings; but none when they are under the influence of imagination.
Our patience will achieve more than our force.
Nothing is so fatal to religion as indifference.
To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny.
The traveller has reached the end of the journey!
Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation.
Society can overlook murder, adultery or swindling; it never forgives preaching of a new gospel.
Beauty is the promise of happiness.
A State without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation.
Good order is the foundation of all things.
Never despair, but if you do, work on in despair.
Politics and the pulpit are terms that have little agreement.
If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free; if our wealth commands us, we are poor indeed.
All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent.
No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.
Passion for fame: A passion which is the instinct of all great souls.
We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.
Under the pressure of the cares and sorrows of our mortal condition, men have at all times, and in all countries, called in some physical aid to their moral consolations - wine, beer, opium, brandy, or tobacco.
It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact.
Laws, like houses, lean on one another.
People crushed by laws, have no hope but to evade power. If the laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to the law; and those who have most to hope and nothing to lose will always be dangerous.
There is but one law for all, namely that law which governs all law, the law of our Creator, the law of humanity, justice, equity - the law of nature and of nations.
Liberty must be limited in order to be possessed.
I have never yet seen any plan which has not been mended by the observations of those who were much inferior in understanding to the person who took the lead in the business.
Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom; and a great empire and little minds go ill together.
To tax and to please, no more than to love and to be wise, is not given to men.
What ever disunites man from God, also disunites man from man.
If you can be well without health, you may be happy without virtue.
It is not what a lawyer tells me I may do; but what humanity, reason, and justice tell me I ought to do.
You can never plan the future by the past.
All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter.
I venture to say no war can be long carried on against the will of the people.
The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
Facts are to the mind what food is to the body.
Education is the cheap defense of nations.
The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.
The arrogance of age must submit to be taught by youth.
Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows, and of lending existence to nothing.
Nothing turns out to be so oppressive and unjust as a feeble government.
But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded; and the glory of Europe is extinguished forever.
Justice is itself the great standing policy of civil society; and any eminent departure from it, under any circumstances, lies under the suspicion of being no policy at all.
But what is liberty without wisdom, and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils; for it is folly, vice, and madness, without tuition or restraint.
Beauty in distress is much the most affecting beauty.
Superstition is the religion of feeble minds.