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• Difficulty is a severe instructor, set over us by the supreme ordinance of a parental guardian and legislator, who knows us better than we know ourselve
  and He loves us better too. He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves, and sharpens our skill....
• 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...
• Learning will be cast into the mire and trodden down under the hoofs of a swinish multitude.
  -- Edmund Burke (1729-1797) -- Reflections on the Revolution in France, Vol. iii, p. 335...
• People will not look forward to posterity who never look backward to their ancestors.
  -- Edmund Burke (1729-1797) -- Reflections on the Revolution in France, Vol. iii, p. 274...
• That chastity of honour which felt a stain like a wound.
  -- Edmund Burke (1729-1797) -- Reflections on the Revolution in France, Vol. iii, p. 332...
• 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...
• 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...
• To execute laws is a royal office; to execute orders is not to be a king.
  However, a political executive magistracy, though merely such, is a great trust....