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
It is a general popular error to suppose the loudest complainers for the public to be the most anxious for its welfare. – Edmund Burke
What ever disunites man from God, also disunites man from man. – Edmund Burke
At what point then is the approach of danger to be expected? I answer, if it ever reach us, it must spring up amongst us. It cannot come from abroad. If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen, we must live through all time, or die by suicide. – Abraham Lincoln