Quotes by : Edmund Burke

No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.

We set ourselves to bite the hand that feeds us.

The human mind is often, and I think it is for the most part, in a state neither of pain nor pleasure,....

No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.

I have not yet lost a feeling of wonder, and of delight, that the delicate motion should reside in all....

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.

You can never plan the future by the past.

Superstition is the religion of feeble minds.

By gnawing through a dyke even a rat may drown a nation.