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• All men that are ruined, are ruined on the side of their natural propensities.
  -- Edmund Burke (1729-1797) -- Reflections on the Revolution in France, -- Letter i, On a Regicide Peace, Vol....
• All those instances to be found in history, whether real or fabulou
  of a doubtful public spirit, at which morality is perplexed, reason is staggered, and from which affrighted Nature recoils, are their chosen and almost sole examples for the instruction of their youth....
• You can never plan the future by the past. -- Edmund Burke (1729-1797) -- Reflections on the Revolution in France, -- Letter to a Member of the National Assembly, Vol.
  iv, p. 55...
• The cold neutrality of an impartial judge. -- Edmund Burke (1729-1797) -- Reflections on the Revolution in France, -- Preface to Brissot's Address, Vol.
  v, p. 67...
• The men of England,--the men, I mean, of light and leading in England.
  -- Edmund Burke (1729-1797) -- Reflections on the Revolution in France, Vol. iii, p. 365...
• 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....
• Early and provident fear is the mother of safety. -- Edmund Burke (1729-1797) -- Reflections on the Revolution in France, -- Speech on the Petition of the Unitarians, Vol.
  vii, p. 50...
• In their nomination to office they will not appoint to the exercise of authority as to a pitiful job, but as to a holy function.
  -- Edmund Burke (1729-1797) -- Reflections on the Revolution in France, Vol. iii, p. 356...
• Kings will be tyrants from policy, when subjects are rebels from principle.
  -- Edmund Burke (1729-1797) -- Reflections on the Revolution in France, Vol. iii, p. 334...