It is, generally, in the season of prosperity that men discover their real temper, principles, and designs. – Edmund Burke
Taxing is an easy business. Any projector can contrive new compositions, any bungler can add to the old. – 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
Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation. – Edmund Burke