Edmund Burke — "The character of the people is the only standard to which the laws can be referr…"

"The use of force alone is but temporary. It may subdue for a moment; but it does not remove the necessity of subduing again: and a nation is not governed, which is perpetually to be conquered."

"The love of lucre, and not the love of liberty, is the ruling principle of the new French Republic."

"No man can be a good citizen who is not a good son, a good brother, a good husband, or a good father."

"The power of punishment is to prevent crime, not to punish it."

"Flattery corrupts both the receiver and the giver."