The writers against religion whilst they oppose every system are wisely careful never to set up any of their own.

— Edmund Burke

Those who don't know history are doomed to repeat it.

— Edmund Burke

To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.

— Edmund Burke

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.

— Edmund Burke

War never leaves where it found a nation.

— Edmund Burke

Well is it known that ambition can creep as well as soar.

— Edmund Burke

We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.

— Edmund Burke

We set ourselves to bite the hand that feeds us.

— Edmund Burke

What ever disunites man from God, also disunites man from man.

— Edmund Burke

Whatever is fitted in any sort to excite the ideas of pain, and danger, that is to say, whatever is in any sort terrible, or is conversant about terrible objects, or operates in a manner analogous to terror, is a source of the sublime; that is, it is productive of the strongest emotion which the mind is capable of feeling .... When danger or pain press too nearly, they are incapable of giving any delight, and [yet] with certain modifications, they may be, and they are delightful, as we every day experience.

— Edmund Burke