Burke, Edmund

"Good order is the foundation of all things."

"He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves, and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper."

"Among a people generally corrupt liberty cannot long exist."

"The person who grieves suffers his passion to grow upon him; he indulges it, he loves it; but this never happens in the case of actual pain, which no man ever willingly endured for any considerable time."

"The nerve that never relaxes, the eye that never blanches, the thought that never wanders, the purpose that never wavers - these are the masters of victory."

"Nothing is so fatal to religion as indifference, which is, at least, half infidelity."

"It is hard to say whether the doctors of law or divinity have made the greater advances in the lucrative business of mystery."

"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing." - attributed

"You can never plan the future by the past." - letter (1791)

"All men that are ruined, are ruined on the side of their natural propensities." - Letters on a Regicide Peace

"Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other." - Letters on a Regicide Peace

"Custom reconciles us to everything." - On the Sublime and Beautiful

"Good order is the foundation of all good things." - Reflections on the Revolution in France

"Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants. Men have a right that these wants should be provided for by this wisdom." - Reflections on the Revolution in France

"Whilst shame keeps its watch, virtue is not wholly extinguished in the heart." - Reflections on the Revolution in France

"The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse." - speech (1771)

"Toleration is good for all, or it is good for none." - speech (1773)

"To tax and to please, no more than to love and to be wise, is not given to men." - speech (1774)

"Public calamity is a mighty leveller." - speech (1775)

"All government - indeed, every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue and every prudent act - is founded on compromise and barter." - speech (1775)

"The march of the human mind is slow." - speech (1775)

"The use of force alone is but temporary. It may subdue for a moment; but it does not remove the necessity of subduing again: and a nation is not governed, which is perpetually to be conquered." - speech (1775)

"Dangers by being despised grow great." - speech (1792)

"Early and provident fear is the mother of safety." - speech (1792)

"When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall, one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle." - Thoughts on the Cause of the Present Discontents