Edmund Burke Quotes on Policy
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Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny.
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And having looked to Government for bread, on the very first scarcity they will turn and bite the hand that fed them.
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Taxing is an easy business. Any projector can contrive new impositions, any bungler can add to the old.
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Circumstances...give in reality to every political principle its distinguishing colour, and discriminating effect. The circumstances are what render every civil and political scheme beneficial or noxious to mankind.
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Justice is itself the great standing policy of civil society; and any eminent departure from it, under any circumstances, lies under the suspicion of being no policy at all.