Many counterrevolutionary books have been written in favor of the Revolution. But Burke has written a revolutionary book against t...he Revolution.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
In doing good, we are generally cold, and languid, and sluggish; and of all things afraid of being too much in the right. But the ...works of malice and injustice are quite in another style. They are finished with a bold, masterly hand; touched as they are with the spirit of those vehement passions that call forth all our energies, whenever we oppress and persecute..LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Men are qualified for civil liberty in exact proportion to their disposition to put moral chains upon their own appetites; in prop...ortion as their love to justice is above their rapacity; in proportion as their soundness and sobriety of understanding is above their vanity and presumption; in proportion as they are more disposed to listen to the counsels of the wise and good, in preference to the flattery of knaves.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Those who have been once intoxicated with power, and have derived any kind of emolument from it, even though but for one year, nev...er can willingly abandon it. They may be distressed in the midst of all their power; but they will never look to anything but power for their relief.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »