Quotes by Edmund Burke

Education is the cheap defense of nations.

A State without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation.

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.

Beauty in distress is much the most affecting beauty.

The arrogance of age must submit to be taught by youth.

But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded and the glory of Europe is extinguished forever.