3 December 2020 Edmund Burke All human laws are, properly speaking, only declaratory they have no power over the substance of original justice.
3 December 2020 Edmund Burke 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 most to hope and nothing to lose will always be dangerous.
3 December 2020 Edmund Burke No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.
3 December 2020 Edmund Burke Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows, and of lending existence to nothing.
3 December 2020 Edmund Burke He had no failings which were not owing to a noble cause to an ardent, generous, perhaps an immoderate passion for fame a passion which is the instinct of all great souls.
3 December 2020 Edmund Burke Nothing turns out to be so oppressive and unjust as a feeble government.
3 December 2020 Edmund Burke I venture to say no war can be long carried on against the will of the people.
3 December 2020 Edmund Burke All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent.
3 December 2020 Edmund Burke 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.
3 December 2020 Edmund Burke All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter.
