Edmund Burke: “Indeed, he will pardon me, he is a little mistaken: all virtue did not end in the first Earl of Bedford; all discernment…”

They look on the frame of their commonwealth, such as it stands, to be of inestimable value; and they conceive the undisturbed succession of the crown to be a pledge of the stability and perpetuity of all the other members of our…

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.

Those who are servants in name, as well as in effect, do not like to be told of their situation, their duty, and their obligations.

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.