Edmund Burke

"Hatred is the fury of those who do not understand."

"The cold neutrality of an impartial judge."

"Mere parsimony is not economy."

"Among a people generally corrupt, liberty cannot long exist."

"It is a general popular error to imagine the loudest complainers for the public to be the most anxious for its welfare."

"The conduct of a losing party never can raise itself into dignity."

"Custom reconciles us to everything."

"Danger and deliverance make their advances together."

"Nothing turns out to be so oppressive as a paternal government."

"Men are qualified for civil liberty in exact measure of their disposition to put moral chains upon their own appetites."

"There is no safety for honest men but by believing all possible evil of evil men."

"A state without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation."

"Freedom and not servitude is the cure of anarchy."

"Mere enthusiasm is the all in all. Passion and warmth are everything."

"Facts are to the mind like food to the body."

"The person who threatens the world is not the one who hates it, but the one who loves it."

"Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful."

"The revenue of the state is the state."

"In reality there is no such thing as the public. There are only individuals."

"I am convinced that we have a degree of delight and that no small one, in the real misfortunes and pains of others."

"The method of nature: who could every object so rare as to be worth protecting."

"No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear."

"To execute laws is a royal office; to execute orders is a servile office."

"It is not what a lawyer tells me I may do; but what humanity, reason, and justice tell me I ought to do."

"Those who attempt to level, never equalize."

"Better to be despised for too anxious apprehensions, than ruined by too confident security."

"It is a great mistake to imagine that mankind agrees upon any settled maxims relating to this or any other subject."

"Laws, like houses, lean on one another."

"The grand instructor, Time."

"We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature."