Justice 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 BurkeArt is a partnership not only between those who are living but between those who are dead and those who are yet to be born.
Edmund BurkeThe most important of all revolutions, a revolution in sentiments, manners and moral opinions.
Edmund BurkeKnowledge of those unalterable Relations which Providence has ordained that every thing should bear to every other...To these we should conform in good Earnest; and not think to force Nature, and the whole Order of her System, by a Compliance with our Pride, and Folly, to conform to our artificial Regulations.
Edmund Burke