Edmund Burke: “The remedy must be where power, wisdom, and information, I hope, are more united with good intentions than they can be…”

Those who know what virtuous liberty is cannot bear to see it disgraced by incapable heads, on account of their having high-sounding words in their mouths.

In some people I see great liberty, indeed; in many, if not in the most, an oppressive, degrading servitude.

But to form a free government, that is, to temper together these opposite elements of liberty and restraint in one consistent work, requires much thought, deep reflection, a sagacious, powerful, and combining mind.

To keep a balance between the power of acquisition on the part of the subject and the demands he is to answer on the part of the state is the fundamental part of the skill of a true politician.