Edmund Burke Quotes
Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows, and of lending existence to nothing. Politics and the pulpit are terms that have little agreement. Reading without reflecting is like eating without digesting. Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation. Religious persecution may shield itself under the guise of a mistaken and over-zealous piety. Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle which fits them all. Slavery is a weed that grows on every soil. Society can overlook murder, adultery or swindling; it never forgives preaching of a new gospel. Superstition is the religion of feeble minds. The arrogance of age must submit to be taught by youth. The effect of liberty to individuals is that they may do what they please: we ought to see what it will please them to do, before we risk congratulations. The first and simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind, is curiosity. The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse. The march of the human mind is slow. The most important of all revolutions, a revolution in sentiments, manners and moral opinions. The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing. The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion. 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 traveller has reached the end of the journey! The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedience, and by parts.
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