Quotes by Burke, Edmund

To make us love our country, our country ought to be lovely. >>

Taxing is an easy business. Any projector can contrive new composition >>

It is the interest of the commercial world that wealth should be found >>

Quotations about Inheritance

To inherit property is not to be born -- it is to be still-born, rathe >>

I would as soon leave my son a curse as the almighty dollar. >>

A person can receive nothing except it be given him from heaven. >>

In this choice of inheritance we have given to our frame of polity the image of a relation in blood; binding up the constitution of our country with our dearest domestic ties; adopting our fundamental laws into the bosom of our family affections; keeping inseparable and cherishing with the warmth of all their combined and mutually reflected charities, our state, our hearths, our sepulchres, and our altars.

Burke, Edmund