The great must submit to the dominion of prudence and of virtue, or none will long submit to the dominion of the great.
Edmund BurkeTeach me, O lark! with thee to greatly rise, to exalt my soul and lift it to the skies.
Edmund BurkeBut a good patriot, and a true politician, always considers how he shall make the most of the existing materials of his country. A disposition, to preserve, and an ability to improve, taken together, would be my standard of a statesman. Everything else is vulgar in the conception, perilous in the execution.
Edmund BurkeWe must soften into a credulity below the milkiness of infancy to think all men virtuous. We must be tainted with a malignity truly diabolical, to believe all the world to be equally wicked and corrupt.
Edmund Burke