Edmund Burke

Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones.

Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones.

Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants. Men have a right that these wants should read more

Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants. Men have a right that these wants should be provided for by this wisdom.

If you can be well without health, you may be happy without virtue.

If you can be well without health, you may be happy without virtue.

That chastity of honour which felt a stain like a wound.

That chastity of honour which felt a stain like a wound.

Learning will be cast into the mire and trodden down under the
hoofs of a swinish multitude.

Learning will be cast into the mire and trodden down under the
hoofs of a swinish multitude.