"The rule of law bakes no bread, it is unable to distribute loaves or fishes (it has none), and it cannot protect itself against external assault, but it remains the most civilized and least burdensome conception of a state yet to be devised."

-- Michael Joseph Oakeshott

#Law Quotes #Bread Quotes #States Quotes

“The thing about politics is to plan 10 years ahead, and assume every year is your last.”

Source : "Ed Balls: Yorkshire beef and Westminster lasagne parties" by Rachel Cooke, www.theguardian.com. January 19, 2013.
“The longer you have something, the stronger the bond. That's true with people as well as things.”
“I pause at the door, wishing I could find a corner and sleep until my head clears, but the sailor said the abbess is expecting me, and while I do not know much about abbesses, I suspect they are not fond of waiting.”
“The two operations of our understanding, intuition and deduction, on which alone we have said we must rely in the acquisition of knowledge.”
“It is not unknown for fathers with a brace of daughters to reel off their names in order of birth when summoning the youngest, and I had long ago become accustomed to being called 'Ophelia Daphne Flavia, damn it.”

Source : Alan Bradley (2016). “The Flavia de Luce Series 7-Book Bundle”, p.193, Delacorte Press
“Now came still evening on; and twilight gray Had in her sober livery all things clad: Silence accompanied; for beast and bird, They to they grassy couch, these to their nests, Were slunk, all but the wakeful nightingale.”
“A sight of the label is worth 50 years experience.”

Source : Michael Broadbent (1984). “The Complete Guide to Wine Tasting and Wine Cellars”, Simon & Schuster
“I would take a bomb, but I can't stand the noise.”

You may also like:

Andrew Sullivan
Author
Edmund Burke
Statesman
Friedrich August von Hayek
Economist
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Philosopher
Joseph de Maistre
Philosopher
Leo Strauss
Philosopher
Roger Scruton
Philosopher
Russell Kirk
Historian
Thomas Hobbes
Philosopher