Edmund Burke

"The circumstances are what render every political principle beneficial or noxious to mankind."

"Our laws are a sort of copious harvest of jurisprudence; they are the result of the wisdom of ages."

"Never despair; but if you do, work on in despair."

"The lover is always thought to have a mind quite distracted and separate from the object of his love."

"Commerce shuts out no nation; it insists only on fair and equal access."

"Good people the world over can agree to live under the same general principles."

"The best security for an enduring change is a long and patient process of time."

"Woman is not made to be the insolent rival of man, but his equal and his companion."

"A man's abilities are useless if he cannot apply them to a noble purpose."

"The true end of education is not so much to impart knowledge as to touch hearts."

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

"When ancient opinions and rules of life have borne the test of long experience, we should not reject them hastily."

"The difficulty of determining when the designs of men of extraordinary talents shall be thwarted is very great."

"To be attached to the subdivision, to love the little platoon we belong to in society, is the first principle of public affections."

"A king may be a tool, a puppet, or a pageant; but a nation must be a real power."

"Public force is a trust which must not be abused; it requires for its exercise the highest possible talents."

"We are afraid to put men to live and work out their own salvation without a political constitution."

"Art should envelope you, comfort you, but never forget that it has a moral dimension."

"In a state of nature there is no inequality of rank, but all are equal."

"The grand source of all tyranny over the mind is the abuse of these energies."

"Even when the prospect of advantage is very great, caution is often the wisest course."

"The concessions of the weak are the concessions of fear."

"True moderation is when you take the middle path and refuse extremes."

"To love one's country is to desire it prosperous and to protect its true interests."

"Time is the great arbiter of the truth or falsehood of human institutions."

"The eyes of this nation are now upon you; see that you acquit yourselves worthy of this trust."

"An unjust peace is more terrible than a just war."

"To be governed is to have every transaction, every movement noted, registered, counted, rated, stamped, measured."

"The true danger to liberty comes from far greater adversaries than government."

"In the groves of their academy, at the end, they always find sovereignty."