People must be taken as they are, and we should never try make them or ourselves better by quarreling with them. – Edmund Burke
To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting. – Edmund Burke

People must be taken as they are, and we should never try make them or ourselves better by quarreling with them. – Edmund Burke
To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting. – Edmund Burke
To tax and to please, no more than to love and to be wise, is not given to men. – Edmund Burke
And having looked to government for bread, on the very first scarcity they will turn and bite the hand that fed them. To avoid that evil, government will redouble the causes of it; and then it will become inveterate and incurable. – Edmund Burke