Agent X (Jim Burley) - Burke

Famous quotes containing the word burke:

“We must not always judge of the generality of the opinion by the noise of the acclamation.”
—Edmund Burke (1729–1797)

“We know, and it is our pride to know, that man is by his constitution a religious animal.”
—Edmund Burke (1729–1797)

“Men are qualified for civil liberty in exact proportion to their disposition to put moral chains upon their own appetites; in proportion as their love to justice is above their rapacity; in proportion as their soundness and sobriety of understanding is above their vanity and presumption; in proportion as they are more disposed to listen to the counsels of the wise and good, in preference to the flattery of knaves.”
—Edmund Burke (1729–1797)