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• The jest loses its point when he who makes it is the first to laugh.
• edients, and by parts. -- Edmund Burke
• Vice itself lost half its evil by losing all its grossness.
  -- Edmund Burke (1729-1797) -- Reflections on the Revolution in France, Vol. iii, p. 332...
• 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. -- Edmund Burke...
• Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny. -- Edmund Burke
• Superstition is a religion of feeble minds. -- Edmund Burke
• He was not merely a chip of the old block, but the old block itself.
  -- Edmund Burke (1729-1797) -- On Pitt's First Speech, Feb....
• And having looked to Government for bread, on the very first scarcity they will turn and bite the hand that fed them.
  -- Edmund Burke (1729-1797) -- Reflections on the Revolution in France, -- Thoughts and Details on Scarcity, Vol....
• It has all the contortions of the sibyl without the inspiration.
  -- Edmund Burke (1729-1797) -- Prior's Life of Burke...