People must be taken as they are, and we should never try make them or ourselves better by quarreling with them.
Edmund BurkeTrue religion is the foundation of society. When that is once shaken by contempt, the whole fabric cannot be stable nor lasting.
Edmund BurkeIf any ask me what a free government is, I answer, that, for any practical purpose, it is what the people think so,and that they, and not I, are the natural, lawful, and competent judges of this matter.
Edmund BurkeReligion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation.
Edmund Burke