Quote #5
The wisdom of our ancestors.
More from Edmund Burke
- It is a general popular error to suppose the loudest complainers for the publick to be the most anxious for its welfare.
- Toleration is good for all, or it is good for none.
- There is, however, a limit at which forbearance ceases to be a virtue.
- I take toleration to be a part of religion. I do not know which I would sacrifice; I would keep them both: it is not necessary that I shoul…
- Laws, like houses, lean on one another.
- Your representative owes you, not his industry only, but his judgment; and he betrays instead of serving you if he sacrifices it to your op…
- There is a sort of enthusiasm in all projectors, absolutely necessary for their affairs, which makes them proof against the most fatiguing …
- Parliament is not a congress of ambassadors from different and hostile interests; which interests each must maintain, as an agent and advoc…