Surely the church is a place where one day's truce ought to be allowed to the dissensions and animosities of mankind.
Edmund BurkeNothing in progression can rest on its original plan. We may as well think of rocking a grown man in the cradle of an infant.
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 Burke