Edmund Burke

Falsehood is a perennial spring.

Falsehood is a perennial spring.

All persons possessing any portion of power ought to be strongly
and awfully impressed with an idea that they read more

All persons possessing any portion of power ought to be strongly
and awfully impressed with an idea that they act in trust, and
that they are to account for their conduct in that trust to the
one great Master, Author, and Founder of society.

It is hard to say whether the doctors of law or divinity have made the greater advances in the lucrative read more

It is hard to say whether the doctors of law or divinity have made the greater advances in the lucrative business of mystery.

People must be taken as they are, and we should never try make them or ourselves better by quarreling with read more

People must be taken as they are, and we should never try make them or ourselves better by quarreling with them.

To tax and to please, no more than to love and to be wise, is not given to men.

To tax and to please, no more than to love and to be wise, is not given to men.