If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free; if our wealth commands us, we are poor indeed.
Edmund BurkeIt ought to be the happiness and glory of a representative to live in the strictest union, the closest correspondence, and the most unreserved communication with his constituents. Their wishes ought to have great weight with him; their opinion, high respect; their business, unremitted attention.
Edmund BurkeTrue humility-the basis of the Christian system-is the low but deep and firm foundation of all virtues.
Edmund BurkeI cannot conceive how any man can have brought himself to that pitch of presumption, to consider his country as nothing but carte blanche, upon which he may scribble whatever he pleases.
Edmund Burke