Edmund Burke

"Education is the cheap defense of nations."

"If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free; if our wealth commands us, we are poor indeed."

"It is not what a lawyer tells me I may do; but what humanity, reason, and justice tell me I ought to do."

"It is ordained in the eternal constitution of things, that men of intemperate minds cannot be free. Their passions forge their fetters."

"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."

"Laws, like houses, lean on one another."

"Nobility is a graceful ornament to the civil order. It is the Corinthian capital of polished society."

"Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little."

"Nothing is so fatal to religion as indifference."

"Our patience will achieve more than our force."

"Passion for fame: A passion which is the instinct of all great souls."

"Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows, and of lending existence to nothing."

"Politics and the pulpit are terms that have little agreement."

"Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation."

"Superstition is the religion of feeble minds."

"The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse."

"There is but one law for all, namely that law which governs all law, the law of our Creator, the law of humanity, justice, equity - the law of nature and of nations."

"To make us love our country, our country ought to be lovely."

"To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting."