My good friends, while I do most earnestly recommend you to take care of your health and safety, as things most precious to us, I would not have that care degenerate into an effeminate and over-curious attention, which is always disgraceful to a man's self, and often troublesome to others.
Edmund BurkePeople must be taken as they are, and we should never try make them or ourselves better by quarreling with them.
Edmund BurkeCrimes lead into one another. They who are capable of being forgers, are capable of being incendiaries.
Edmund BurkeThe unbought grace of life, the cheap defence of nations, the nurse of manly sentiment and heroic enterprise, is gone!
Edmund BurkeMen are qualified for civil liberty in exact proportion to their disposition to put moral chains upon their own appetites.
Edmund Burke