It is a general popular error to suppose the loudest complainers for the public to be the most anxious for its welfare. – Edmund Burke
No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear. – Edmund Burke
The great must submit to the dominion of prudence and of virtue, or none will long submit to the dominion of the great. – Edmund Burke
He had no failings which were not owing to a noble cause to an ardent, generous, perhaps an immoderate passion for fame a passion which is the instinct of all great souls. – Edmund Burke