Wise men will apply their remedies to vices, not to names; to the causes of evil which are permanent, not the occasional organs by which they act, and the transitory modes in which they appear.


The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Collected in Three Volumes. Vol. I.[-III.]. (ed. 1792)

Edmund Burke Quotes

Wise men will apply their remedies to vices, not to names; to the causes of evil which are permanent, not the occasional organs by which they act,...

Wise men will apply their remedies to vices, not to names; to the causes of evil which are permanent, not the occasional organs by which they act,...

Wise men will apply their remedies to vices, not to names; to the causes of evil which are permanent, not the occasional organs by which they act,...

Wise men will apply their remedies to vices, not to names; to the causes of evil which are permanent, not the occasional organs by which they act,...