Society is indeed a contract. ... It is a partnership in all science; a partnership in all art; a partnership in every virtue, and in all perfection.
Edmund BurkeI own that there is a haughtiness and fierceness in human nature which will cause innumerable broils, place men in what situation you please.
Edmund BurkeThe writers against religion, whilst they oppose every system, are wisely careful never to set up any of their own.
Edmund BurkeWar is the matter which fills all history; and consequently the only, or almost the only, view in which we can see the external of political society is in a hostile shape: and the only actions to which we have always seen, and still see, all of them intent, are such as tend to the destruction of one another.
Edmund Burke