“Slavery they can have anywhere. It is a weed that grows in every soil.”— Edmund Burke, en.wikiquote.orgTagged: Slavery, Weed, Corruption
“Abstract liberty, like other mere abstractions, is not to be found.”— Edmund Burke, en.wikiquote.orgTagged: Abstract, Liberty, Meaning
“The use of force alone is but temporary. It may subdue for a moment; but it does not remove the necessity of subduing again: and a nation is not governed, which is perpetually to be conquered.”— Edmund Burke, en.wikiquote.orgTagged: force, Government, Conquer
“It is not, what a lawyer tells me I may do; but what humanity, reason, and justice, tell me I ought to do.”— Edmund Burke, en.wikiquote.orgTagged: Law, Lawyer, humanity, Reason, Justice