No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear. – Edmund Burke
People will not look forward to posterity who will not look backward to their ancestors. – Edmund Burke

No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear. – Edmund Burke
People will not look forward to posterity who will not look backward to their ancestors. – Edmund Burke
An event has happened, upon which it is difficult to speak, and impossible to be silent. – Edmund Burke
If the grain were separated from the chaff which fills the Works of our National Poets, what is truly valuable would be to what is useless in the proportion of a mole-hill to a mountain. – Edmund Burke