they never thought of entering into any alliance against them; they equally neglected the other obvious method to prevent their incursions, which was… - Edmund Burke

The true lawgiver ought to have an heart full of sensibility. He ought to love and respect his kind, and to fear himself.

It is no strange thing, to those who look into the nature of corrupted man, to find a violent persecutor a perfect unbeliever of his own creed.

Mr. Burke appeared often in despair when he read the Papers & saw how violent party rage was become in England as well as in France. He often said that he could not consider the party for a reform in part by Mr. Fox & his Friends as distinct from that party of Sir F. Burdet at the Crown & Anchor, because Mr. F— though he might have spoken against the last out of Doors, did not condemn it in parliam[en]t, which would be the manly way of proceeding.