Whenever our neighbour's house is on fire, it cannot be amiss for the engines to play a little on our own.

Quote by Edmund Burke

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Slavery is a weed that grows on every soil.

Slavery is a weed that grows on every soil.

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...

Law and arbitrary power are at eternal enmity

Law and arbitrary power are at eternal enmity

To make us love our country, our country ought to be lovely.

To make us love our country, our country ought to be lovely.

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

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

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...

Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver.

Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver.

Society can overlook murder, adultery or swindling; it never forgives preaching of a new gospel.

Society can overlook murder, adultery or swindling; it never forgives preaching of a new gospel.

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

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

Facts are to the mind what food is to the body

Facts are to the mind what food is to the body

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...

Society can overlook murder, adultery or swindling; it never forgives preaching of a new gospel.

Society can overlook murder, adultery or swindling; it never forgives preaching of a new gospel.

And having looked to Government for bread, on the very first scarcity they will turn...

And having looked to Government for bread, on the very first scarcity they will turn...

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.

Hypocrisy can afford to be magnificent in its promises, for never intending to go beyond...

Hypocrisy can afford to be magnificent in its promises, for never intending to go beyond...

It has all the contortions of the sibyl without the inspiration

It has all the contortions of the sibyl without the inspiration

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

Never despair, but if you do, work on in despair.

Never despair, but if you do, work on in despair.

Patience will achieve more than force.

Patience will achieve more than force.

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...