H. L. Burke Quotes

The security of people and nations rests on four pillars - food, energy, water and climate. They are all closely related, and all under increasing stress

Malcolm Turnbull, more than anyone, changes month to month on a range of issues.

We're going to prevent politics from abusing the parliament and going off playing politics around the country when they should be here at work.

The challenge we've got is that the Government does not have a working majority. They don't.

There are serious budgetry issues that need to be worked through. Playing a game of lying about what's in the content of legislation isn't going to get them anywhere.

With a close parliament, if the Government wants to get a good outcome for the nation, they can't play a game of lying to the public about what's in their own legislation. They can't do that.

Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods." (1794)]

Woman is not made to be the admiration of all, but the happiness of one.

The human mind is often, and I think it is for the most part, in a state neither of pain nor pleasure, which I call a state of indifference.

No power so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.

Among a people generally corrupt, liberty cannot long exist.

Reading without reflecting is like eating without digesting.

Those who don't know history are doomed to repeat it.

People will not look forward to posterity who never look backward to their ancestors.

It is our ignorance of things that causes all our admiration and chiefly excites our passions.

Society is indeed a contract ... it becomes a participant not only between those who are living, those who are dead, and those who are to be born.

If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free. If our wealth commands us, we are poor indeed.

All That Is Needed For Evil To Succeeded, Is For Good People To Do Nothing

All that is necessary for evil to succeed is that good men do nothing.

History is the preceptor of prudence, not principles.

It is generally, in the season of prosperity that men discover their real temper, principles and design.

A representative owes not just his industry but his judgement

Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the

He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves and sharpens our skills. Our antagonist is our helper.

Adversity is a severe instructor. ... He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper.

Mere parsimony is not economy . . . expense and great expense may be an essential part of true economy.

All government - indeed every human benefit and enjoyment every virtue and every prudent act - is founded on compromise and barter.

Never despair but if you do work on in despair.

No passion so effectively robs the mind of its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.

Well is it known that ambition can creep as well as soar.

I would rather sleep in the southern corner of a little country churchyard than in the tombs of the Capulets.

History is a pact between the dead the living and the yet unborn.

The cold neutrality of an impartial judge.

The effect of liberty on individuals is that they may do what they please: we ought to see what it will please them to do before we risk congratulations.

There is a courageous wisdom there is also a false reptile prudence the result not of caution but of fear.

Queen of arts and daughter of heaven.

A disposition to preserve and an ability to improve taken together would be my standard of a statesman.

Your representative owes you not his industry only but his judgement and he betrays instead of serving you if he sacrifices it to your opinion.

The writers against religion whilst they oppose every system are wisely careful never to set up any of their own.

A nation without the means of reform is without the means of survival.

Example is the school of mankind and they will learn at no other.

All men that are ruined are ruined on the side of their natural propensities.

What shadows we are what shadows we pursue!

You cannot plan the future by the past.

Nobody makes a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could only do a little.

A very great part of the mischiefs that vex this world arises from words.

All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent.

There is a boundary to men's passions when they act from feelings but none when they are under the influence of imagination.

Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom and a great empire and little minds go ill together.

I'm not going anywhere.