“Falsehood and delusion are allowed in no case whatever: But, as in the exercise of all the virtues, there is an œconomy of truth. It is a sort of temperance, by which a man speaks truth with measure that he may speak it the longer.”
More from Edmund Burke
“A state without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation.”
“Slavery they can have anywhere. It is a weed that grows in every soil.”
“Abstract liberty, like other mere abstractions, is not to be found.”
“The use of force alone is but temporary. It may subdue for a moment; but it does not…”