Water and oil, simply considered, are capable of giving some pleasure to the taste. Water, when simple, is insipid, inodorous, colorless, and smooth; it is found, when not cold, to be a great resolver of spasms, and lubricator of the fibres; this power it probably owes to its smoothness.
Edmund BurkeLaws are commanded to hold their tongues among arms; and tribunals fall to the ground with the peace they are no longer able to uphold.
Edmund BurkeFreedom without virtue is not freedom but license to pursue whatever passions prevail in the intemperate mind; man's right to freedom being in exact proportion to his willingness to put chains upon his own appetites; the less restraint from within, the more must be imposed from without.
Edmund BurkeThe public interest requires doing today those things that men of intelligence and good will would wish, five or ten years hence, had been done.
Edmund Burke