Edmund Burke

Fraud is the ready minister of injustice.

It is by imitation, far more than by precept, that we learn everything; and what we learn thus, we acquire not only more efficiently, but more pleasantly. This forms our manners, our opinions, our lives.

Hypocrisy can afford to be magnificent in its promises; for never intending to go beyond promises; it costs nothing.

You can never plan the future by the past.

All government -- indeed, every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue and every prudent act -- is founded on compromise and barter.

A man who works beyond the surface of things, though he may be wrong himself, yet he clears the way for others and may make even his errors subservient to the cause of truth.

A man who works beyond the surface of things,though he may be wrong himself, yet he clears the way for others and may make even his errors subservient to the cause of truth.

Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could only do a little.

Whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither, in my opinion, is safe.

I thought ten thousand swords must have leaped from their scabbards to avenge even a look that threatened her with insult. But the age of chivalry is gone.