Whenever our neighbors house is on fire, it cannot be amiss for the engines to play a little on our own. – Edmund Burke
To tax and to please, no more than to love and to be wise, is not given to men. – Edmund Burke
Whenever our neighbors house is on fire, it cannot be amiss for the engines to play a little on our own. – 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
Kings will be tyrants from policy, when subjects are rebels from principle. – Edmund Burke