Edmund Burke ( 10 of 111 )
To tax and to please, no more than to love and to be wise, is not given to men.
To tax and to please, no more than to love and to be wise, is not given to men.
But the religion most prevalent in our northern colonies is a
refinement on the principle of resistance, it is read more
But the religion most prevalent in our northern colonies is a
refinement on the principle of resistance, it is the dissidence
of dissent, and the protestantism of the Protestant religion.
Resolved to die in the last dyke of prevarication.
Resolved to die in the last dyke of prevarication.
Our patience will achieve more than our force.
Our patience will achieve more than our force.
Justice is itself the great standing policy of civil society; and
any eminent departure from it, under any circumstances, read more
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.
A good parson once said that where mystery begins religion ends.
Cannot I say, as truly at least, of read more
A good parson once said that where mystery begins religion ends.
Cannot I say, as truly at least, of human laws, that where
mystery begins, justice ends?
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.
There was an ancient Roman lawyer, of great fame in the history
of Roman jurisprudence, whom they called Cui read more
There was an ancient Roman lawyer, of great fame in the history
of Roman jurisprudence, whom they called Cui Bono, from his
having first introduced into judicial proceedings the argument,
"What end or object could the party have had in the act with
which he is accused."
