It is a general popular error to suppose the loudest complainers for the public to be the most anxious for its welfare. – Edmund Burke
A populace never rebels from passion for attack, but from impatience of suffering. – Edmund Burke
To make us love our country, our country ought to be lovely. – Edmund Burke
The person who grieves suffers his passion to grow upon him he indulges it, he loves it but this never happens in the case of actual pain, which no man ever willingly endured for any considerable time. – Edmund Burke