To tax and to please, no more than to love and to be wise, is not given to men. – 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
To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting. – Edmund Burke
All human laws are, properly speaking, only declaratory they have no power over the substance of original justice. – Edmund Burke
Under the pressure of the cares and sorrows of our mortal condition, men have at all times, and in all countries, called in some physical aid to their moral consolations – wine, beer, opium, brandy, or tobacco. – Edmund Burke