Edmund Burke

Better be despised for too anxious apprehensions, than ruined by too confident security.

Better be despised for too anxious apprehensions, than ruined by too confident security.

When we speak of the commerce with our colonies, fiction lags
after truth, invention is unfruitful, and imagination cold read more

When we speak of the commerce with our colonies, fiction lags
after truth, invention is unfruitful, and imagination cold and
barren.

You had that action and counteraction which, in the natural and
in the political world, from the reciprocal struggle read more

You had that action and counteraction which, in the natural and
in the political world, from the reciprocal struggle of
discordant powers draws out the harmony of the universe.

A disposition to preserve, and an ability to improve, taken
together, would by my standard of a statesman.

A disposition to preserve, and an ability to improve, taken
together, would by my standard of a statesman.

They made and recorded a sort of institute and digest of anarchy,
called the rights of man.

They made and recorded a sort of institute and digest of anarchy,
called the rights of man.