Edmund Burke Virtue Quotations

Whilst shame keeps its watch, virtue is not wholly extinguished in the heart

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

Economy is a distributive virtue, and consists not in saving but selection. Parsimony requires no providence, no sagacity, no powers of combination, no comparison, no judgment.

To speak of atrocious crimes in mild language is treason to virtue.

That cardinal virtue, temperance.

All virtue which is impracticable is spurious.

Economy is a distributive virtue, and consists not in saving but in selection.

Our patience will achieve more than our force.

There is, however, a limit at which forbearance ceases to be a virtue

I have in general no very exalted opinion of the virtue of paper government.