Greater mischief happens often from folly, meanness, and vanity than from the greater sins of avarice and ambition.
Edmund BurkeThe moment that government appears at market, the principles of the market will be subverted.
Edmund BurkeThe esteem of wise and good men is the greatest of all temporal encouragements to virtue; and it is a mark of an abandoned spirit to have no regard to it.
Edmund BurkeI find along with many virtues in my countrymen there is a jealousy, a soreness, and readiness to take offence, as if they were the most helpless and impotent of mankind, and yet a violence... and a boistrousness in their resentment, as if they had been puffed up with the highest prosperity and power. they will not only be served, but it must also be in their own way and on their own principles and even in words and language that they liked... which renders it very difficult for a plain unguarded man as I am to have anything to do with them or their affairs.
Edmund Burke