Edmund Burke: “I know my weakness in all respects, as much at least as any enemy I have; and I attempt to take security against it.”

But an absurd theory on one side of a question forms no justification for alleging a false fact or promulgating mischievous maxims on the other.

Their objects would be enlarged with their elevation; but their disposition, and habits, and mode of accomplishing their designs must remain the same.

Always acting as if in the presence of canonized forefathers, the spirit of freedom, leading in itself to misrule and excess, is tempered with an awful gravity.

Though a king may abdicate for his own person, he cannot abdicate for the monarchy.