Vice incapacitates a man from all public duty; it withers the powers of his under- standing, and makes his mind paralytic.
Edmund BurkeThere is nothing in the world really beneficial that does not lie within the reach of an informed understanding and a well-protected pursuit.
Edmund BurkeThere is a time when the hoary head of inveterate abuse will neither draw reverence nor obtain protection.
Edmund BurkeFreedom without virtue is not freedom but license to pursue whatever passions prevail in the intemperate mind; man's right to freedom being in exact proportion to his willingness to put chains upon his own appetites; the less restraint from within, the more must be imposed from without.
Edmund BurkeThey never will love where they ought to love, who do not hate where they ought to hate.
Edmund BurkeIt is from this absolute indifference and tranquillity of the mind, that mathematical speculations derive some of the most considerable advantages; because there is nothing to interest the imagination; because the judgment sits free and unbiased to examine the point. All proportions, every arrangement of quantity, is alike to the understanding, because the same truths result to it from all; from greater from lesser, from equality and inequality.
Edmund Burke