If the people are happy, united, wealthy, and powerful, we presume the rest. We conclude that to be good from whence good is derived. – Edmund Burke
The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedience, and by parts. – Edmund Burke
Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom and a great empire and little minds go ill together. – Edmund Burke
People will not look forward to posterity who will not look backward to their ancestors. – Edmund Burke
These people have no religion, neither are they idolaters, but are a very gentle race, without the knowledge of any iniquity; they neither kill, nor steal, nor carry weapons… they have a knowledge that there is a God above, and are firmly persuaded that we have come from heaven. – Christopher Columbus