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Edmund Burke

(1729 – 1797) An Irish statesman, author, orator, political theorist and philosopher, Whig politician, who is often regarded as the father of modern conservatism. He is mainly remembered for his support of the cause of the American Revolutionaries, and for his later opposition to the French Revolution.

Beauty is the promise of happiness.

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

You can never plan the future by the past.

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

Our patience will achieve more than our force.

The tyranny of a multitude is a multiplied tyranny.

There is a boundary to men's passions when they act from feelings; but none when they are under the influence of imagination.

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.