To tax and to please, no more than to love and to be wise, is not given to men. — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
Oppression makes wise men mad; but the distemper is still the madness of the wise, which is better than the sobriety of… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
The esteem of wise and good men is the greatest of all temporal encouragements to virtue; and it is a mark of… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
The wise determine from the gravity of the case; the irritable, from sensibility to oppression; the high minded, from disdain and indignation… — 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 the occasional… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
The individual is foolish; the multitude, for the moment is foolish, when they act without deliberation; but the species is wise, and,… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
Taxing is an easy business. Any projector can contrive new impositions; any bungler can add to the old; but is it altogether… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
Men are qualified for civil liberty in exact proportion to their disposition to put moral chains upon their own appetites…in proportion as… — 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
