5 Edmund Burke Quotes on Policy

Edmund Burke quotes on policy

12. Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny.

33. And having looked to Government for bread, on the very first scarcity they will turn and bite the hand that fed them.

90. Taxing is an easy business. Any projector can contrive new impositions, any bungler can add to the old.

100. 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.

125. 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.