Quotes by : Edmund Burke

A disposition to preserve and an ability to improve taken together would be my standard of a statesman.....

Facts are to the mind what food is to the body.

The cold neutrality of an impartial judge.

Custom reconciles us to everything.

Beauty is the promise of happiness.

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

History is a pact between the dead the living and the yet unborn.

Nobody makes a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could only do a little.

Example is the school of mankind and they will learn at no other.

Example is the school of mankind and they will learn at no other.