Edmund Burke

"Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other."

"Society cannot exist unless a controlling power upon will and appetite be placed somewhere."

"Nothing endears one country to another but an intercourse of charity."

"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing."

"Manners are of more importance than laws."

"All that is necessary for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing."

"The person who makes no mistakes does not try new things."

"Our patience will achieve more than our force."

"To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting."

"The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedients."

"It is ordained in the eternal constitution of things, that men of intemperate minds cannot be free."

"Nothing is so fatal to religion as indifference."

"The greatest distance between people is misunderstanding."

"Beauty is the promise of happiness."

"Ambition can creep as well as soar."

"There is but one law for all, namely that law which governs all law, the law of our Creator."

"A disposition to preserve, and an ability to improve, taken together, would be my standard of a statesman."

"Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants."

"The method of nature is our best guide in this."

"Good order is the foundation of all good things."

"War never leaves where it found a nation."

"The person who meditates on the law of nature is struck with awe."

"Weakness in authority proves the strength of free men."

"It has been the misfortune of history that great men have not always been good men."

"Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other."

"I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts."

"Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver."

"The only thing necessary for the perpetuation of evil is that good men remain silent."

"When we speak we are afraid that we will not be understood; so we use long sentences."

"The condition upon which God hath given liberty to man is eternal vigilance."