Inspirational Quotes
Words to motivate, inspire, and guide you.
Edmund Burke Quotes
ActionAgencyDecisionFearReason No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.
GovernmentJusticeOppressionWeakness Nothing turns out to be so oppressive and unjust as a feeble government.
Abuse of PowerDemocracyMinority RightsOppression In a democracy, the majority of the citizens is capable of exercising the most cruel oppressions upon the minority.
Happiness vs VirtueHealth and Well-beingNorms and BeliefsSelf RelianceTrade-Offs in Life If you can be well without health, you may be happy without virtue.
ForesightPreparednessPreventionPrudence Whenever our neighbour's house is on fire, it cannot be amiss for the engines to play a little on our own.
DeceptionFalse PromisesGrandiosityHypocrisyInaction Hypocrisy can afford to be magnificent in its promises, for never intending to go beyond promise, it costs nothing.
HappinessProsperityStrengthUnityWell-being If the people are happy, united, wealthy, and powerful, we presume the rest. We conclude that to be good from whence good is derived.
InnovationNarrow-MindednessProgressSelfishnessTradition A spirit of innovation is generally the result of a selfish temper and confined views. People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors.
CopingHuman ConditionSubstance UseSuffering Under the pressure of the cares and sorrows of our mortal condition, men have at all times, and in all countries, called in some physical aid to their moral consolations - wine, beer, opium, brandy, or tobacco.
CollaborationFeedbackGrowthHumilityLeadership I have never yet seen any plan which has not been mended by the observations of those who were much inferior in understanding to the person who took the lead in the business.
BalanceJusticeLibertyMoral PhilosophySecurity Whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither, in my opinion, is safe.
GovernanceLegislaturePublic WillResponsiveness In effect, to follow, not to force the public inclination; to give a direction, a form, a technical dress, and a specific sanction, to the general sense of the community, is the true end of legislature.
Divine LawHumanityJusticeNatural LawUniversal Law There is but one law for all, namely that law which governs all law, the law of our Creator, the law of humanity, justice, equity - the law of nature and of nations.
Authority vs PublicConflictPublic WillResistanceSocietal Dynamics I venture to say no war can be long carried on against the will of the people.
EthicsJusticeReason It is not what a lawyer tells me I may do; but what humanity, reason, and justice tell me I ought to do.
ConsequenceDestructionNeglectPerseveranceResilience By gnawing through a dike, even a rat may drown a nation.
ControlFinancial IndependenceFreedomWealth If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free; if our wealth commands us, we are poor indeed.