When slavery is established in any part of the world, those who are free are by far the most proud and jealous of their freedom.
Edmund BurkeLaws are commanded to hold their tongues among arms; and tribunals fall to the ground with the peace they are no longer able to uphold.
Edmund BurkeWhen you find me attempting to break into your house to take your plate, under any pretence whatsoever, but most of all under pretence of purity of religion and Christian charity shoot me for a robber and a hypocrite, as in that case I shall certainly be.
Edmund BurkeNobility is a graceful ornament to the civil order. It is the Corinthian capital of polished society.
Edmund BurkeWhatever each man can separately do, without trespassing upon others, he has a right to do for himself; and he has a right to a fair portion of all which society, with all it combinations of skill and force, can do in his favor. In this partnership all men have equal rights; but not to equal things.
Edmund Burke