A great deal of the furniture of ancient tyranny is torn to rags; the rest is entirely out of fashion.
Edmund BurkeMere parsimony is not economy. Expense, and great expense, may be an essential part in true economy.
Edmund BurkeWar is the matter which fills all history; and consequently the only, or almost the only, view in which we can see the external of political society is in a hostile shape: and the only actions to which we have always seen, and still see, all of them intent, are such as tend to the destruction of one another.
Edmund Burke