Nobility is a graceful ornament to the civil order. It is the Corinthian capital of polished society.

Quote by Edmund Burke

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If the grain were separated from the chaff, which fills the works of our national...

If the grain were separated from the chaff, which fills the works of our national...

It is a general popular error to suppose the loudest complainers for the public to...

It is a general popular error to suppose the loudest complainers for the public to...

Free trade is not based on utility but on justice.

Free trade is not based on utility but on justice.

Among a people generally corrupt liberty cannot long exist.

Among a people generally corrupt liberty cannot long exist.

Liberty must be limited in order to be possessed

Liberty must be limited in order to be possessed

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

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

Our patience will achieve more than our force.

Our patience will achieve more than our force.

All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do...

All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do...

If any ask me what a free government is, I answer, that, for any practical...

If any ask me what a free government is, I answer, that, for any practical...

Never despair, but if you do, work in despair

Never despair, but if you do, work in despair

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...

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

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

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

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

The arrogance of age must submit to be taught by youth.

The arrogance of age must submit to be taught by youth.

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...

All human laws are, properly speaking, only declaratory; they have no power over the substance...

All human laws are, properly speaking, only declaratory; they have no power over the substance...

You can never plan the future by the past.

You can never plan the future by the past.

Whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither, in my opinion, is safe.

Whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither, in my opinion, is safe.

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.

I venture to say no war can be long carried on against the will of...

I venture to say no war can be long carried on against the will of...