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

Edmund Burke

No. 1, volume v, p. 331
Letters On a Regicide Peace (1796)

“Nothing less will content me, than whole America.”

Edmund Burke

Second Speech on Conciliation with America (1775)

“He was not merely a chip of the old Block, but the old Block itself.”

Edmund Burke

On Pitt's First Speech (26 February 1781), from Wraxall's Memoirs, First Series, vol. i. p. 342
1780s

“The individual is foolish; the multitude, for the moment is foolish, when they act without deliberation; but the species is wise, and, when time is given to it, as a species it always acts right.”

Edmund Burke

Speech on Reform of Representation in the House of Commons (7 May 1782)
1780s

“There was an ancient Roman lawyer, of great fame in the history of Roman jurisprudence, whom they called Cui Bono, from his having first introduced into judicial proceedings the argument, "What end or object could the party have had in the act with which he is accused."”

Edmund Burke

30 May 1794
On the Impeachment of Warren Hastings (1788-1794)

“The writers against religion, whilst they oppose every system, are wisely careful never to set up any of their own.”

Edmund Burke book A Vindication of Natural Society

Preface
A Vindication of Natural Society (1756)

“All protestantism, even the most cold and passive, is a sort of dissent. But the religion most prevalent in our northern colonies is a refinement on the principles of resistance: it is the dissidence of dissent, and the protestantism of the Protestant religion.”

Edmund Burke

Works of Edmund Burke Volume ii, p. 123
Second Speech on Conciliation with America (1775)

“In this choice of inheritance we have given to our frame of polity the image of a relation in blood, binding up the constitution of our country with our dearest domestic ties, adopting our fundamental laws into the bosom of our family affections, keeping inseparable and cherishing with the warmth of all their combined and mutually reflected charities our state, our hearths, our sepulchres, and our altars.”

Edmund Burke book Reflections on the Revolution in France

Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790)

“If you can be well without health, you may be happy without virtue.”

Edmund Burke

First known in Thomas Fuller's Gnomologia: Adages and Proverbs (1732), but not found in the writings of Edmund Burke.
Misattributed

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

Edmund Burke

Letter to http://books.google.com/books?id=JsCV9BpMko4C&amp;pg=PA107&amp;dq=%22arrogance+of+age+must+submit+to+be+taught+by+youth%22&amp;hl=en&amp;sa=X&amp;ei=RoPSUs_hA83okQeTz4CQCw&amp;ved=0CC8Q6AEwAA#v=onepage&amp;q=%22arrogance%20of%20age%20must%20submit%20to%20be%20taught%20by%20youth%22&amp;f=false Frances Burney (29 July 1782) <br class="br">1780s

“They talk as if England were not in Europe.”

Edmund Burke

The Speeches of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke in the House of Commons and in Westminster Hall, Volume 4 https://books.google.nl/books?id=P3o9AAAAcAAJ&amp;pg=PA86&amp;lpg=PA86&amp;dq=edmund+burke+%22as+if+england%22&amp;source=bl&amp;ots=5zDSB68xOn&amp;sig=XL30Pw27VyA2LHbMQObnDITiGrM&amp;hl=nl&amp;sa=X&amp;ved=0ahUKEwjJjuL3sMbNAhXJrRoKHT1ABSIQ6AEIIDAB#v=onepage&amp;q=edmund%20burke%20%22as%20if%20england%22&amp;f=false, London, 1816, p. 86 <br class="br">As quoted in &quot;Book review: Britain’s Europe: A Thousand Years of Conflict and Cooperation by Brendan Simms&quot;, in Prospect magazine (19 May 2016) http://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/arts-and-books/book-review-britains-europe-a-thousand-years-of-conflict-and-cooperation-by-brendan-simms <br class="br">Undated

“Religious persecution may shield itself under the guise of a mistaken and over-zealous piety.”

Edmund Burke

15 February 1788
On the Impeachment of Warren Hastings (1788-1794)

“The tyranny of a multitude is a multiplied tyranny.”

Edmund Burke

Letter to Thomas Mercer
Undated

“The men of England — the men, I mean of light and leading in England.”

Edmund Burke book Reflections on the Revolution in France

Volume iii, p. 365
Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790)

“All who have ever written on government are unanimous, that among a people generally corrupt, liberty cannot long exist.”

Edmund Burke

Letter to the Sheriffs of Bristol (1777)

“Vice itself lost half its evil by losing all its grossness.”

Edmund Burke book Reflections on the Revolution in France

Volume iii, p. 332
Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790)

“I am convinced that we have a degree of delight, and that no small one, in the real misfortunes and pains of others.”

Edmund Burke book A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful

Part I Section XIV
Compare: Francis, Duc de La Rochefoucauld, Reflections, xv: "In the adversity of our best friends we always find something which is not wholly displeasing to us"
A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful (1757)

“The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedients, and by parts.”

Edmund Burke

Letter to the Sheriffs of Bristol (1777)

“An event has happened, upon which it is difficult to speak, and impossible to be silent.”

Edmund Burke

5 May 1789
On the Impeachment of Warren Hastings (1788-1794)

“Of this stamp is the cant of, Not men, but measures.”

Edmund Burke book Thoughts on the Cause of the Present Discontents

Volume i, p. 531
Thoughts on the Cause of the Present Discontents (1770)