There ought to be a system of manners in every nation which a well-formed mind would be disposed to relish. To make us love our country, our country ought to be lovely.
Edmund Burke Quotes
Among a people generally corrupt liberty cannot long exist.
He that accuses all mankind of corruption ought to remember that he is sure to convict only one.
It is better to leave all dealing… entirely to the persons mutually concerned in the matter contracted for than to put this contract into the hands of those who can have none, or a very remote interest in it, and little or no knowledge of the subject.
A state without some means of change is without the means of its conservation.
Better to be despised for too anxious apprehensions, than be ruined by too confident a security.
All government indeed, every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue and every prudent act is founded on compromise and barter.
It is a general error to suppose the loudest complainers for the public to be the most anxious for its welfare.
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.
What is London? Clean, commodious, neat; but, a very few things indeed excepted, an endless addition of littleness to littleness, extending itself over a great tract of land.
