More by Edmund Burke
People must be governed in a manner agreeable to their temper and disposition; and men of free character and spirit must be ruled with, at least, some condescension to this spirit and this character.
Observations on a Late Publication on the Present State of the Nation (1769)
The rights of the people are every thing, as they ought to be in the true and natural order of things.
On the Impeachment of Warren Hastings (1794)
Learning will be cast into the mire and trodden down under the hoofs of a swinish multitude.
Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790)
I am well aware, that men love to hear of their power, but have an extreme disrelish to be told of their duty.
An Appeal from the New to the Old Whigs (1791)
The unbought grace of life, the cheap defence of nations, the nurse of manly sentiment and heroic enterprise, is gone!
Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790)
All men that are ruined, are ruined on the side of their natural propensities.
Letters On a Regicide Peace (1796)
There is, however, a limit at which forbearance ceases to be a virtue.
Observations on a Late Publication on the Present State of the Nation (1769)
Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other.
Letters On a Regicide Peace (1796)
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