Edmund Burke

And having looked to Government for bread, on the very first scarcity they will turn and bite the hand that fed them.

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

"War," says Machiavelli, "ought to be the only study of a prince;" and by a prince he means every sort of state, however constituted. "He ought," says this great political doctor, "to consider peace only as a breathing-time, which gives him leisure to contrive, and furnishes ability to execute military plans. "A meditation on the conduct of political societies made old Hobbes imagine that war was the state of nature.

All wealth is power, so power must infallibly draw wealth to itself by some means or other.

The wisdom of our ancestors.

Never, no, never, did Nature say one thing and Wisdom say another.

The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.

Illustrious predecessor.

In such a strait the wisest may well be perplexed and the boldest staggered.

Nothing in progression can rest on its original plan. We may as well think of rocking a grown man in the cradle of an infant.