Restraint and discipline and examples of virtue and justice. These are the things that form the education of the world. – Edmund Burke
No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear. – Edmund Burke
It looks to me to be narrow and pedantic to apply the ordinary ideas of criminal justice to this great public contest. I do not know the method of drawing up an indictment against a whole people. – Edmund Burke
Justice is itself the great standing policy of civil society and any eminent departure from it, under any circumstances, lies under the suspicion of being no policy at all. – Edmund Burke