Edmund Burke

To tax and to please, no more than to love and to be wise, is not given to men.

It is, generally, in the season of prosperity that men discover their real temper, principles, and designs.

There is a boundary to men’s passions when they act from feelings but none when they are under the influence of imagination.

Under the pressure of the cares and sorrows of our mortal condition, men have at all times, and in all countries, called in some physical aid to their moral consolations – wine, beer, opium, brandy, or tobacco.

When bad men combine, the good must associate else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.

The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.