Edmund Burke

"The people are the masters of the servants they have appointed."

"Government without a principle of benevolence is tyranny."

"The grand instructor, Time, will teach us all things and perhaps not very gently."

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

"Our patience will achieve more than our force."

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

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

"Prejudice renders a man's virtue his habit; and not a series of unconnected acts."

"The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse."

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

"Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver."

"The grand instructor, Time, will teach us all things."

"Beauty in distress is much the most affecting beauty."

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

"Nothing is so unwise as to reject the wisdom of ages."

"The will of the people is the only legitimate foundation of any government."

"Mere parsimony is not economy. Expense, and great expense, may be an essential part in true economy."

"Art is man's nature; nature is God's art."

"A people prosperous and happy never love change."

"Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom."

"The most important of all revolutions, a revolution in sentiments, manners and moral opinions."

"There is no safety for honest men except by believing all possible good of one another."

"Ambition can creep as well as soar."

"It is the nature of tyranny to insist that you accept their lies."

"The conduct of a losing party never can be regarded as very meritorious."

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

"In a democracy, the majority of the citizens is capable of exercising the most cruel oppressions upon the minority."

"Nothing is more certain than that dissensions between religious sects may produce toleration."

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

"First and foremost, it is important to note that the state is a creation of nature, and that man is a political animal."