Edmund Burke: “They warm the heart; they enlarge and liberalize our minds; they animate our courage in a time of conflict.”

We procure reverence to our civil institutions on the principle upon which Nature teaches us to revere individual men: on account of their age, and on account of those from whom they are descended.

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.

A few years ago I should be ashamed to overload a matter so capable of supporting itself by the then unnecessary support of any argument; but this seditious, unconstitutional doctrine is now publicly taught, avowed, and printed.

Governments must be abused and deranged indeed, before it can be thought of; and the prospect of the future must be as bad as the experience of the past.