Edmund Burke Quotes on Truth
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It is a general popular error to suppose the loudest complainers for the publick to be the most anxious for its welfare.
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Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.
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The art of substantiating shadows, and of lending existence to nothing.
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Falsehood has a perennial spring.
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When we speak of the commerce with our colonies, fiction lags after truth, invention is unfruitful, and imagination cold and barren.
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Resolved to die in the last dike of prevarication.
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We must not always judge of the generality of the opinion by the noise of the acclamation.
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Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle which fits them all.
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It has always been with me, a test of the sense and candour of any one belonging to the opposite party, whether he allowed Burke to be a great man.