Quotes
Quotes - Burke
The men of England--the men, I mean of light and leading in England.
The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other.
Illustrious Predecessor.
Early and provident fear is the mother of safety.
No man can mortgage his injustice as a pawn for his fidelity.
You can never plan the future by the past.
The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
All government--indeed, every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue and every prudent act--is founded on compromise and barter.
And having looked to Government for bread, on the very first scarcity they will turn and bite the hand that fed them.
When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall, one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.
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.
I would rather sleep in the southern corner of a little country churchyard, than in the tombs of the Capulets.
The cold neutrality of an impartial judge.
It is the function of a judge not to make but to declare the law, according to the golden mete-wand of the law and not by the crooked cord of discretion.
Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.
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.
It looks to me to be narrow and pedantic to apply the ordinary ideas of criminal justice to this great public contest. I do not know the method of drawing up an indictment against a whole people.
Whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither, in my opinion, is safe.
There was an ancient Roman lawyer, of great fame in the history of Roman jurisprudence, whom they called Cui Bono, from his having first introduced into judicial proceedings the argument, "What end or object could the party have had in the act with which he is accused."
I do not know the method of drawing up an indictment against an whole people.
A good parson once said that where mystery begins religion ends. Cannot I say, as truly at least, of human laws, that where mystery begins, justice ends?
Learning will be cast into the mire and trodden down under the hoofs of a swinish multitude.
In all forms of government the people is the true legislator.
But what is liberty without wisdom, and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils; for it is folly, vice, and madness, without tuition or restraint.
