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No sound ought to be heard in the church but the healing voice of Christian charity.
Edmund Burke -
The wise will determine from the gravity of the case; the irritable from sensibility to oppression; the high-minded from disdain and indignation at abusive power in unworthy hands.
Edmund Burke
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Some decent regulated pre-eminence, some preference (not exclusive appropriation) given to birth, is neither unnatural, nor unjust, nor impolite.
Edmund Burke -
Abstract liberty, like other mere abstractions, is not to be found.
Edmund Burke -
Economy is a distributive virtue, and consists not in saving but selection. Parsimony requires no providence, no sagacity, no powers of combination, no comparison, no judgment.
Edmund Burke -
To execute laws is a royal office; to execute orders is not to be a king. However, a political executive magistracy, though merely such, is a great trust.
Edmund Burke -
By the disposition of a stupendous wisdom, moulding together the great mysterious incorporation of the human race, the whole, at one time, is never old, or middle-aged, or young; but, in a condition of unchangeable constancy, moves on through the varied tenor of perpetual decay, fall, renovation, and progression.
Edmund Burke -
I am convinced that we have a degree of delight, and that no small one, in the real misfortunes and pains of others.
Edmund Burke
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We must not always judge of the generality of the opinion by the noise of the acclamation.
Edmund Burke -
That chastity of honour which felt a stain like a wound.
Edmund Burke -
Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants. Men have a right that these wants should be provided for by this wisdom.
Edmund Burke