“History consists, for the greater part, of the miseries brought upon the world by pride, ambition, avarice, revenge, lust, sedition, hypocrisy, ungoverned zeal, and all the train of disorderly appetites, which shake the public with the same —“troublous storms that tossThe private state, and render life unsweet.”These vices are the causes of those storms. Religion, morals, laws, prerogatives, privileges, liberties, rights of men, are the pretexts.”
Edmund Burke“It is not what a lawyer tells me I may do; but what humanity, reason, and justice tell me I ought to do.”
Edmund Burke“Nobility is a graceful ornament to the civil order. It is the Corinthian capital of polished society.”
Edmund Burke“A State without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation.”
Edmund Burke“Under the pressure of the cares and sorrows of our mortal condition, men have at all times, and in all countries, called in some physical aid to their moral consolations - wine, beer, opium, brandy, or tobacco.”
Edmund Burke“Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows, and of lending existence to nothing.”
Edmund Burke