No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.Edmund Burke
It is not what a lawyer tells me I may do; but what humanity, reason, and justice tell me I ought to do.Edmund Burke
It is a general popular error to suppose the loudest complainers for the public to be the most anxious for its welfare.Edmund Burke
All human laws are, properly speaking, only declaratory; they have no power over the substance of original justice.Edmund Burke
Religious wars are not caused by the fact that there is more than one religion, but by the spirit of intolerance... the spread of which can only be regarded as the total eclipse of human reason.Montesquieu
There is no nation so powerful, as the one that obeys its laws not from principals of fear or reason, but from passion.Montesquieu
