H. L. Burke Quotes
If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free; if our wealth commands us, we are poor indeed.
When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.
Writers, especially when they act in a body and with one direction, have great influence on the public mind.
There is nothing that God has judged good for us that He has not given us the means to accomplish, both in the natural and the moral world.
He had no failings which were not owing to a noble cause; to an ardent, generous, perhaps an immoderate passion for fame; a passion which is the instinct of all great souls.
I have not yet lost a feeling of wonder, and of delight, that the delicate motion should reside in all the things around us, revealing itself only to him who looks for it.
True religion is the foundation of society. When that is once shaken by contempt, the whole fabric cannot be stable nor lasting.
The superfluities of a rich nation furnish a better object of trade than the necessities of a poor one. It is the interest of the commercial world that wealth should be found everywhere.
It is not what a lawyer tells me I may do; but what humanity, reason, and justice tell me I ought to do.
Parliament is a deliberative assembly of one nation.You choose a Member indeed; but when you have chosen him, heisnotthe Member for Bristol, but heisa Member of Parliament.
Good company, lively conversation, and the endearments of friendship fill the mind with great pleasure.
When I was young, I wanted to do something more low-key, like become a drummer in a rock band.
It is ordained in the eternal constitution of things, that men of intemperate minds cannot be free. Their passions forge their fetters.
I really believe in the environmental movement right now - it only takes a little effort to make a big difference.
He only deserves to be remembered by posterity who treasures up and preserves the history of his ancestors.
God has sometimes converted wickedness into madness; and it is to the credit of human reason that men who are not in some degree mad are never capable of being in the highest degree wicked.
An event has happened, upon which it is difficult to speak, and impossible to be silent.
Your representative owes you, not his industry only, but his judgment; and he betrays instead of serving you if he sacrifices it to your opinion.
Real love is fighting like hell to hold on to every moment you have with her. It’s making a life together and making it work no matter what happens.
I wouldn't write anything autobiographical. If you've lived a life like Laurence of Arabia, it might be a consideration, but otherwise it's a little bit vain, it seems to me.
We must not always judge of the generality of the opinion by the noise of the acclamation.
The greatest crimes do not arise from a want of feeling for others but from an over-sensibilit y for ourselves and an over-indulgence to our own desires
