Ambition can creep as well as soar. – Edmund Burke
And having looked to government for bread, on the very first scarcity they will turn and bite the hand that fed them. To avoid that evil, government will redouble the causes of it; and then it will become inveterate and incurable. – Edmund Burke
It is, generally, in the season of prosperity that men discover their real temper, principles, and designs. – Edmund Burke
They defend their errors as if they were defending their inheritance. – Edmund Burke
I think there ought to be a strict separation or wall built between our religious faith and our practice of political authority in office. I dont think the President of the United States should extoll Christianity if he happens to be a Christian at the expense of Judaism, Islam or other faiths. – Jimmy Carter