“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.”
Men
“Justice is itself the great standing policy of civil society and any eminent departure from it, under any circumstances, lies under the suspicion of being no policy at all.”
GreatAll Quotes by Edmund Burke
“To tax and to please, no more than to love and to be wise, is not given to men.”
Men“You can never plan the future by the past.”
Future“We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.”
Change“Beauty in distress is much the most affecting beauty.”
Beauty“Nobility is a graceful ornament to the civil order. It is the Corinthian capital of polished society.”
Society“It is, generally, in the season of prosperity that men discover their real temper, principles, and designs.”
Men“Facts are to the mind what food is to the body.”
Food“Those who don't know history are destined to repeat it.”
History“But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded and the glory of Europe is extinguished forever.”
Age“I have never yet seen any plan which has not been mended by the observations of those who were much inferior in understanding to the person who took the lead in the business.”
Business“Passion for fame: A passion which is the instinct of all great souls.”
Great“It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact.”
Nature“But what is liberty without wisdom, and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils for it is folly, vice, and madness, without tuition or restraint.”
Wisdom“When bad men combine, the good must associate else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.”
Good“Toleration is good for all, or it is good for none.”
Good“If you can be well without health, you may be happy without virtue.”
Health“Mere parsimony is not economy. Expense, and great expense, may be an essential part in true economy.”
Great“All human laws are, properly speaking, only declaratory they have no power over the substance of original justice.”
Power“Society can overlook murder, adultery or swindling it never forgives preaching of a new gospel.”
Society