“"War," says Machiavel, "ought to be the only study of a prince;" and by a prince he means every sort of state, however constituted. "He ought," says this great political doctor, "to consider peace only as a breathing-time, which gives him leisure to contrive, and furnishes ability to execute military plans." A meditation on the conduct of political societies made old Hobbes imagine that war was the state of nature.<!-- The Works of Edmund Burke volume I, p. 15-->”
“Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.”
Edmund Burke
“To make us love our country, our country ought to be lovely.”
Edmund Burke
“Woman is not made to be the admiration of all, but the happiness of one.”
Edmund Burke
“People crushed by laws, have no hope but to evade power. If the laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to the law; and those who have most to hope and nothing to lose will always be dangerous.”
Edmund Burke
“But what is liberty without wisdom and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils; for it is folly, vice, and madness, without tuition or restraint. Those who know what virtuous liberty ...”
Edmund Burke