No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear. – Edmund Burke
All human laws are, properly speaking, only declaratory they have no power over the substance of original justice. – Edmund Burke
Taxing is an easy business. Any projector can contrive new compositions, any bungler can add to the old. – Edmund Burke
When the leaders choose to make themselves bidders at an auction of popularity, their talents, in the construction of the state, will be of no service. They will become flatterers instead of legislators; the instruments, not the guides, of the people. – Edmund Burke