If you can be well without health, you may be happy without virtue.

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• Edmund Burke:

  One that confounds good and evil is an enemy to good.

• Edmund Burke:

  He that struggles with us strengthens our nerves, and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our hel

• Edmund Burke:

  It is not what a lawyer tells me I may do; but what humanity, reason, and justice tell me I ought t

• Edmund Burke:

  You can never plan the future by the past.

• Edmund Burke:

  All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is f

• Edmund Burke:

  Custom reconciles us to everything.

• Edmund Burke:

  The effect of liberty to individuals is that they may do what they please: we ought to see what it

• Edmund Burke:

  Whilst shame keeps its watch, virtue is not wholly extinguished in the heart; nor will moderation b

• Edmund Burke:

  The most important of all revolutions, a revolution in sentiments, manners and moral opinions.

• Edmund Burke:

  Your representative owes you, not his industry only, but his judgment; and he betrays instead of se