Quote #28
Early and provident fear is the mother of safety.
More from Edmund Burke
- Old religious factions are volcanoes burnt out.
- It is the function of a judge not to make but to declare the law, according to the golden mete-wand of the law and not by the crooked cord …
- We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.
- The cold neutrality of an impartial judge.
- There is a boundary to men's passions when they act from feeling; none when they are under the influence of imagination.
- Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.
- So far as it has gone, it probably is the most pure and defecated publick good which ever has been conferred on mankind.
- Nothing is so fatal to religion as indifference.