It ought to be the happiness and glory of a representative to live in the strictest union, the closest correspondence, and the… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
To prove that the Americans ought not to be free, we are obliged to deprecate the value of freedom itself. — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
Politics ought to be adjusted not to human reasonings but to human nature, of which reason is but a part and by… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
Men who undertake considerable things, even in a regular way, ought to give us ground to presume ability. — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
Parliament is not a congress of ambassadors from different and hostile interests; which interests each must maintain, as an agent and advocate,… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
There ought to be system of manners in every nation which a well-formed mind would be disposed to relish. To make us… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
He that accuses all mankind of corruption ought to remember that he is sure to convict only one. — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
Reflect how you are to govern a people who think they ought to be free, and think they are not. Your scheme… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
I do not hesitate to say that the road to eminence and power, from an obscure condition, ought not to be made… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
No government ought to exist for the purpose of checking the prosperity of its people or to allow such a principle in… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
Surely the church is a place where one day's truce ought to be allowed to the dissensions and animosities of mankind. — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
Parliament is a deliberate assembly of one nation, with one interest, that of the whole; where, not local purpose, not local prejudices… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
Men want to be reminded, who do not want to be taught; because those original ideas of rectitude to which the mind… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
No sound ought to be heard in the church but the healing voice of Christian charity. — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
Society is indeed a contract. Subordinate contracts for objects of mere occasional interest may be dissolved at pleasure - but the state… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
"War," says Machiavelli, "ought to be the only study of a prince;" and by a prince he means every sort of state,… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
Nothing ought to be more weighed than the nature of books recommended by public authority. So recommended, they soon form the character… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
All persons possessing any portion of power ought to be strongly and awfully impressed with an idea that they act in trust,… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
Politics and the pulpit are terms that have little agreement. No sound ought to be heard in the church but the healing… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
The effect of liberty to individuals is that they may do what they please: we ought to see what it will please… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
It is the interest of the commercial world that wealth should be found everywhere. — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
“Many of the greatest tyrants on the records of history have begun their reigns in the fairest manner. But the truth is, this unnatural… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
In this choice of inheritance we have given to our frame of polity the image of a relation in blood; binding up the constitution… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
“Wise men will apply their remedies to vices, not to names; to the causes of evil which are permanent, not to the occasional organs… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
“A man full of warm, speculative benevolence may wish his society otherwise constituted than he finds it; but a good patriot, and a true… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
The great must submit to the dominion of prudence and of virtue, or none will long submit to the dominion of thegreat. — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
Those who have been once intoxicated with power, and have derived any kind of emolument from it, even though but for one year, never… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
What is it we all seek for in an election? To answer its real purposes, you must first possess the means of knowing the… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
Society is indeed a contract. It is a partnership in all science; a partnership in all art; a partnership in every virtue, and in… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
