Edmund Burke: “The first pledge he must give of his sincerity in this great reform will be in the confidence which ought to be reposed…”

An irregular, convulsive movement may be necessary to throw off an irregular, convulsive disease.

The speculative line of demarcation, where obedience ought to end and resistance must begin, is faint, obscure, and not easily definable.

This idea of a liberal descent inspires us with a sense of habitual native dignity, which prevents that upstart insolence almost inevitably adhering to and disgracing those who are the first acquirers of any distinction.

The people of England will not ape the fashions they have never tried, nor go back to those which they have found mischievous on trial.