Edmund Burke

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

Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom and a great empire and little minds go ill together.

Passion for fame: A passion which is the instinct of all great souls.

Mere parsimony is not economy. Expense, and great expense, may be an essential part in true economy.

He had no failings which were not owing to a noble cause to an ardent, generous, perhaps an immoderate passion for fame a passion which is the instinct of all great souls.

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.

Nothing turns out to be so oppressive and unjust as a feeble government.

All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter.

Toleration is good for all, or it is good for none.

When bad men combine, the good must associate else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.

All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent.

The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.

What ever disunites man from God, also disunites man from man.

You can never plan the future by the past.

Facts are to the mind what food is to the body.

No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.

Education is the cheap defense of nations.

A State without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation.

We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.

I have never yet seen any plan which has not been mended by the observations of those who were much inferior in understanding to the person who took the lead in the business.