Nobility is a graceful ornament to the civil order. It is the Corinthian capital of polished society. – Edmund Burke
Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom and a great empire and little minds go ill together. – 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
Men are qualified for civil liberty in exact proportion to their disposition to put moral chains upon their own appetites…
Society cannot exist, unless a controlling power upon will and appetite be placed somewhere; and the less of it there is within, the more there must be without. – Edmund Burke