The essence of tyranny is the enforcement of stupid laws.
EDMUND BURKEThe essence of tyranny is the enforcement of stupid laws.
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 BURKEPolitics and the pulpit are terms that have little agreement.
EDMUND BURKEEducation is the cheap defense of nations.
EDMUND BURKEPower gradually extirpates from the mind every humane and gentle virtue.
EDMUND BURKEA coward’s courage is in his tongue.
EDMUND BURKEYour representative owes you, not his industry only, but his judgment; and he betrays instead of serving you if he sacrifices it to your opinion.
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 BURKETurn over a new leaf.
EDMUND BURKEA populace never rebels from passion for attack, but from impatience of suffering.
EDMUND BURKEThose who attempt to level never equalize.
EDMUND BURKEDogs are indeed the most social, affectionate, and amiable animals of the whole brute creation.
EDMUND BURKENo passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.
EDMUND BURKEPeople crushed by law, have no hopes but from power. If laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to laws; and those who have much hope and nothing to lose, will always be dangerous.
EDMUND BURKEIt is a general popular error to suppose the loudest complainers for the public to be the most anxious for its welfare.
EDMUND BURKEFlattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver.
EDMUND BURKE