Quotes from Edmund Burke

A spirit of innovation is generally the result of a selfish temper and confined views. People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors.

If you can be well without health, you may be happy without virtue.

Restraint and discipline and examples of virtue and justice. These are the things that form the education of the world.

In a democracy, the majority of the citizens is capable of exercising the most cruel oppressions upon the minority.

Among a people generally corrupt, liberty cannot long exist.