Quote: It is the interest of the commercial world that wealth should be found everywhere. [Edmund Burke]
Quote: Under the pressure of the cares and sorrows of our mortal condition, men have at all times, and in all countries, called in some physical aid to their moral consolations -- wine, beer, opium, brandy, or tobacco. [Edmund Burke]
Quote: The first and simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind, is curiosity. [Edmund Burke]
Quote: All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter. [Edmund Burke]
Quote: It is a general popular error to suppose the loudest complainers for the public to be the most anxious for its welfare. [Edmund Burke]
Quote: Never despair, but if you do, work on in despair. [Edmund Burke]
Quote: Men are qualified for civil liberty in exact proportion to their disposition to put moral chains upon their own appetites; in proportion as their love to justice is above their rapacity; in proportion as their soundness and sobriety of understanding is above their vanity and presumption; in proportion as they are more disposed to listen to the counsels of the wise and good, in preference to the flattery of knaves. [Edmund Burke]
Quote: Custom reconciles us to everything. [Edmund Burke]
Quote: Among a people generally corrupt, liberty cannot long exist. [Edmund Burke]
Quote: When the leaders choose to make themselves bidders at an auction of popularity, their talents, in the construction of the state, will be of no service. They will become flatterers instead of legislators; the instruments, not the guides, of the people. [Edmund Burke]
Quote: The objects of a financier are, then, to secure an ample revenue; to impose it with judgment and equality; to employ it economically; and, when necessity obliges him to make use of credit, to secure its foundations in that instance, and for ever, by the clearness and candor of his proceedings, the exactness of his calculations, and the solidity of his funds. [Edmund Burke]
Quote: No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear. [Edmund Burke]
Quote: The great must submit to the dominion of prudence and of virtue, or none will long submit to the dominion of the great. [Edmund Burke]
Quote: People will not look forward to posterity who will not look backward to their ancestors. [Edmund Burke]
Quote: The use of force alone is but temporary. It may subdue for a moment; but it does not remove the necessity of subduing again: and a nation is not governed, which is perpetually to be conquered. [Edmund Burke]
Quote: Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other [Edmund Burke]
Quote: It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact. [Edmund Burke]
Quote: When ever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither is safe. [Edmund Burke]
Quote: Great men are the guideposts and landmarks in the state. [Edmund Burke]
Quote: Nothing turns out to be so oppressive and unjust as a feeble government. [Edmund Burke]
Quote: Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver. [Edmund Burke]
Quote: People crushed by laws, have no hope but to evade power. If the laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to the law; and those who have must to hope and nothing to lose will always be dangerous. [Edmund Burke]
Quote: Manners are of more importance than laws. Manners are what vex or soothe, corrupt or purify, exalt or debase, barbarize or refine us, by a constant, steady, uniform, insensible operation, like that of the air we breathe in. [Edmund Burke]
Quote: In doing good, we are generally cold, and languid, and sluggish; and of all things afraid of being too much in the right. But the works of malice and injustice are quite in another style. They are finished with a bold, masterly hand; touched as they are with the spirit of those vehement passions that call forth all our energies, whenever we oppress and persecute. [Edmund Burke]
Quote: The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedience, and by parts. [Edmund Burke]