Not men but measures a sort of charm by which many people get loose from every honorable engagement.
Edmund BurkeIn their nomination to office they will not appoint to the exercise of authority as to a pitiful job, but as to a holy function.
Edmund BurkeA people who are still, as it were, but in the gristle, and not yet hardened into the bone of manhood.
Edmund BurkePeople crushed by law, have no hopes but from power. If laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to laws; and those who have much hope and nothing to lose, will always be dangerous.
Edmund BurkeA disposition to preserve, and an ability to improve, taken together, would be my standard of a statesman.
Edmund BurkeThe objects of a financier are, then, to secure an ample revenue; to impose it with judgment and equality; to employ it economically; and, when necessity obliges him to make use of credit, to secure its foundations in that instance, and for ever, by the clearness and candor of his proceedings, the exactness of his calculations, and the solidity of his funds.
Edmund Burke