Edward Burke on . .

The French Revolution:"The age of chivalry is gone - that of sophisters, economists, and calculators, has succeeded, and the glory of Europe is extinguished forever."

Democracy:"The occupation of an hairdresser or of a working tallow-chandler cannot be a matter of honour to any person - to say nothing of a number of other more servile employments. Such descriptions of men ought not to suffer oppression by the state, but the state suffers oppression if such as they, either individually or collectively, are permitted to rule."

Appeasement:"The use of force alone is but temporary. Conciliation failing, force remains; but force failing, no further hope of conciliation is left."

Manners:"Manners are of more importance than laws . . . Manners are what vex or soothe, corrupt or purify, exalt or debase, barbarise or refine us, by a constant, steady, uniform, insensible operation like that of the air we breathe in."

Peace:"The proposition is peace. Not peace through the medium of war; not peace to be hunted through the labyrinth of intricate and endless negotiations; not peace to arise out of universal discord fomented, from principle, in all parts of the Empire . . . It is simple peace, sought in its natural course, and in its ordinary haunts. It is peace sought in the spirit of peace and laid in principles purely pacific . . "