The effect of liberty to individuals is that they may do what they please: we ought to see what it will please them to do, before we risk congratulations.

Quote by Edmund Burke

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To tax and to please, no more than to love and to be wise, is...

To tax and to please, no more than to love and to be wise, is...

Patience will achieve more than force.

Patience will achieve more than force.

Taxing is an easy business. Any projector can contrive new compositions, any bungler can add...

Taxing is an easy business. Any projector can contrive new compositions, any bungler can add...

Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is...

Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is...

Circumstances give in reality to every political principle its distinguishing color and discriminating effect. The...

Circumstances give in reality to every political principle its distinguishing color and discriminating effect. The...

Men are qualified for civil liberties in exact proportion to their disposition to put moral...

Men are qualified for civil liberties in exact proportion to their disposition to put moral...

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...

Nothing is so fatal to religion as indifference.

Nothing is so fatal to religion as indifference.

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

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

Politics and the pulpit are terms that have little agreement.

Politics and the pulpit are terms that have little agreement.

Among a people generally corrupt, liberty cannot long exist

Among a people generally corrupt, liberty cannot long exist

Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny.

Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny.

Nothing is so fatal to religion as indifference, which is, at least, half infidelity

Nothing is so fatal to religion as indifference, which is, at least, half infidelity

The person who grieves suffers his passion to grow upon him; he indulges it, he...

The person who grieves suffers his passion to grow upon him; he indulges it, he...

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

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

Law and arbitrary power are at eternal enmity

Law and arbitrary power are at eternal enmity

When the leaders choose to make themselves bidders at an auction of popularity, their talents,...

When the leaders choose to make themselves bidders at an auction of popularity, their talents,...

He had no failings which were not owing to a noble cause; to an ardent,...

He had no failings which were not owing to a noble cause; to an ardent,...

Good order is the foundation of all things.

Good order is the foundation of all things.

The traveller has reached the end of the journey!

The traveller has reached the end of the journey!