Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows, and of lending existence to nothing. Edmund Burke Poetry
People crushed by laws, have no hope but to evade power. If the laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to the law; and those who have most to hope and nothing to lose will always be dangerous. Edmund Burke Legal
When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle. Edmund Burke Men
A State without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation. Edmund Burke Change
Nobility is a graceful ornament to the civil order. It is the Corinthian capital of polished society. Edmund Burke Society
All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter. Edmund Burke Government
People crushed by laws, have no hope but to evade power. If the laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to the law; and those who have most to hope and nothing to lose will always be dangerous. Edmund Burke Power
All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent. Edmund Burke Good
When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle. Edmund Burke Politics
It is not what a lawyer tells me I may do; but what humanity, reason, and justice tell me I ought to do. Edmund Burke Legal
Justice is itself the great standing policy of civil society; and any eminent departure from it, under any circumstances, lies under the suspicion of being no policy at all. Edmund Burke Legal
If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free; if our wealth commands us, we are poor indeed. Edmund Burke Money
No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear. Edmund Burke Fear