Author of quotes: Edmund Burke

If the people revolt, not from the desire to take someone else's, and from the inability to maintain their.

Slavery is a weed that grows in any soil.

People are worthy of civil liberty in exact proportion to their willingness to impose moral ties to their own spontaneous desire... a Society cannot exist without power, controlling the will and natural instincts, and the less of such power within us, the more it must be from the outside. The eternal order of things foreordained, that the immoderate nature can not be free. Their passions forge them chains.

We really enjoy listening to those who tell us about our morals, but we don't like to reminded us about our duties.

For religion there is nothing more destructive indifference.

A perfect democracy is the most shameful thing on earth.

Customs are more important than laws, because it is from them that the laws depend.

There is a limit, after which the restraint and self-control cease to be a virtue.

You can change names - things basically remain the same. <...> The wise men offered the cure for the vices, rather than the names - from the causes of evil that constantly, and not random organs through which it acts, or of temporal forms in which it manifests itself.

Tarnish as soon as you overthrow the government, they put the argument, respectively, which all who opposed the new government and its abuses, were enlisted in a mandatory supporters of the old regime; and those who accused them of cruelty and violence over freedom, were declared the Champions of slavery.

Society is indeed a contract, but the contract of the highest order. It cannot be considered as a commercial agreement on the sale of pepper, coffee and tobacco or any similar contract of the practical benefits or for the implementation of minor, fleeting interests, which may be terminated at the whim of one party. The state demands respect, because it is a merger whose purpose is not the satisfaction of animal needs or solution is negligible and transient problems. This society, which should develop science and the arts, all virtues and perfection. Such a goal can only be achieved by many successive generations therefore the social contract is not only between living, but between present, past and future generations.

Every nation must have a system of morals, which would be nice mind. If you want to force us to love their country, make it sweet to our heart. But any government, depreciated manners and customs, will look for means to resist. The usurpation which, in order to break the old institutions of power, destroyed the old principles, will try to resist, using the same methods by which she reached power.

Human nature is complicated and confusing, the public interest is also extremely complex, and, therefore, there is no political direction, no such power that would suit everyone. When I hear about the simplicity of the plan, the purpose of which is a new political organization, I can't help thinking that its inventors don't know their craft or neglect of duty. The idea is simple political system is inherently flawed, to say the least.

The state needs to strengthen its forces in the cure of their diseases. Neither gives a discussion about human rights. What is the benefit if it does not provide a man nor food nor medical care? The problem is how to get them and how to dispose of them. In such cases I always advise to seek the services of a farmer or a doctor, not a Professor of metaphysics.