To reach the height of our ambition is like trying to reach the rainbow; as we advance it recedes.
Edmund BurkeFlattery is no more than what raises in a man's mind an idea of a preference which he has not.
Edmund BurkeJustice is itself the great standing policy of civil society; and any eminent departure from it, under any circumstances, lies under the suspicion of being no policy at all.
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 Burke