All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter.
— Edmund Burke
The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion.
— Edmund Burke
The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedience, and by parts.
— Edmund Burke
When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.
— Edmund Burke, Thoughts on the Cause of Present Discontents
Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could only do a little.
— Edmund Burke
Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny.
— Edmund Burke
Those who have been once intoxicated with power, and have derived any kind of emolument from it, even though but for one year, can never willingly abandon it.
— Edmund Burke
