Free trade is not based on utility but on justice.

Quote by Edmund Burke

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Patience will achieve more than force.

Patience will achieve more than force.

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

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

Custom reconciles us to everything.

Custom reconciles us to everything.

It is undoubtedly the business of ministers very much to consult the inclinations of the...

It is undoubtedly the business of ministers very much to consult the inclinations of the...

What is it we all seek for in an election? To answer its real purposes,...

What is it we all seek for in an election? To answer its real purposes,...

People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors.

People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors.

Education is the cheap defense of nations

Education is the cheap defense of nations

Among a people generally corrupt, liberty cannot long exist

Among a people generally corrupt, liberty cannot long exist

But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophisters, economists, and calculators, has succeeded;...

But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophisters, economists, and calculators, has succeeded;...

I have in general no very exalted opinion of the virtue of paper government.

I have in general no very exalted opinion of the virtue of paper government.

It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact.

It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact.

Laws, like houses, lean on one another.

Laws, like houses, lean on one another.

It is not what a lawyer tells me I may do; but what humanity, reason,...

It is not what a lawyer tells me I may do; but what humanity, reason,...

Liberty must be limited in order to be possessed.

Liberty must be limited in order to be possessed.

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

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

The tyranny of a multitude is a multiplied tyranny.

The tyranny of a multitude is a multiplied tyranny.

By gnawing through a dike, even a rat may drown a nation.

By gnawing through a dike, even a rat may drown a nation.

When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall one by one,...

When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall one by one,...

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

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

Religious persecution may shield itself under the guise of a mistaken and over-zealous piety.

Religious persecution may shield itself under the guise of a mistaken and over-zealous piety.