There is a boundary to mens passions when they act from feelings but none when they are under the influence of imagination. – Edmund Burke
Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom and a great empire and little minds go ill together. – Edmund Burke
Men are qualified for civil liberty in exact proportion to their disposition to put moral chains upon their own appetites…
Society cannot exist, unless a controlling power upon will and appetite be placed somewhere; and the less of it there is within, the more there must be without. – Edmund Burke
No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear. – Edmund Burke