3 December 2020 Edmund Burke I have never yet seen any plan which has not been mended by the observations of those who were much inferior in understanding to the person who took the lead in the business.
3 December 2020 Edmund Burke But what is liberty without wisdom, and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils for it is folly, vice, and madness, without tuition or restraint.
3 December 2020 Edmund Burke Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom and a great empire and little minds go ill together.
3 December 2020 Edmund Burke Justice is itself the great standing policy of civil society and any eminent departure from it, under any circumstances, lies under the suspicion of being no policy at all.
3 December 2020 Edmund Burke The person who grieves suffers his passion to grow upon him he indulges it, he loves it but this never happens in the case of actual pain, which no man ever willingly endured for any considerable time.
3 December 2020 Edmund Burke Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation.
3 December 2020 Edmund Burke There is but one law for all, namely that law which governs all law, the law of our Creator, the law of humanity, justice, equity – the law of nature and of nations.
3 December 2020 Edmund Burke It is, generally, in the season of prosperity that men discover their real temper, principles, and designs.
3 December 2020 Edmund Burke Nobility is a graceful ornament to the civil order. It is the Corinthian capital of polished society.
3 December 2020 Edmund Burke We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.
3 December 2020 Edmund Burke The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
3 December 2020 Edmund Burke To tax and to please, no more than to love and to be wise, is not given to men.
3 December 2020 Edmund Burke When bad men combine, the good must associate else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.
3 December 2020 Edmund Burke Society can overlook murder, adultery or swindling it never forgives preaching of a new gospel.
3 December 2020 Edmund Burke But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded and the glory of Europe is extinguished forever.
3 December 2020 Edmund Burke There is a boundary to men’s passions when they act from feelings but none when they are under the influence of imagination.
3 December 2020 Edmund Burke Mere parsimony is not economy. Expense, and great expense, may be an essential part in true economy.
3 December 2020 Edmund Burke A State without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation.
