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.
EDMUND BURKEJustice 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.
EDMUND BURKEThose who have been intoxicated with power… can never willingly abandon it.
EDMUND BURKEThis sort of people are so taken up with their theories about the rights of man that they have totally forgotten his nature.
EDMUND BURKEWhat ever disunites man from God, also disunites man from man.
EDMUND BURKEIn a democracy, the majority of the citizens is capable of exercising the most cruel oppressions upon the minority.
EDMUND BURKEThere is nothing that God has judged good for us that He has not given us the means to accomplish, both in the natural and the moral world.
EDMUND BURKENobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.
EDMUND BURKEPolitics and the pulpit are terms that have little agreement.
EDMUND BURKENothing is so fatal to religion as indifference.
EDMUND BURKEEducation is the cheap defense of nations.
EDMUND BURKEIf we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free; if our wealth commands us, we are poor indeed.
EDMUND BURKEThe essence of tyranny is the enforcement of stupid laws.
EDMUND BURKEFlattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver.
EDMUND BURKEBy gnawing through a dike, even a rat may drown a nation.
EDMUND BURKEWhenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither, in my opinion, is safe.
EDMUND BURKETo make us love our country, our country ought to be lovely.
EDMUND BURKE