"All government -- indeed, every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue and every prudent act -- is founded on compromise and barter."
- Edmund Burke (1729 - 1797)

"All men that are ruined, are ruined on the side of their natural propensities."
- Edmund Burke (1729 - 1797)

"Custom reconciles us to everything."
- Edmund Burke (1729 - 1797)

"Dangers by being despised grow great."
- Edmund Burke (1729 - 1797)

"Early and provident fear is the mother of safety."
- Edmund Burke (1729 - 1797)

"Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other."
- Edmund Burke (1729 - 1797)

"Good order is the foundation of all good things."
- Edmund Burke (1729 - 1797)

"Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants. Men have a right that these want should be provided for by this wisdom."
- Edmund Burke (1729 - 1797)