Edmund Burke: “I defy the ingenuity of man to show that the honor of Great Britain has not been tarnished under his patronage.”

But supposing they had ranked as they ought to do, and as with us they do actually, the sides of sick-beds are not the academies for forming statesmen and legislators.

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.

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

If all the absurd theories of lawyers and divines were to vitiate the objects in which they are conversant, we should have no law and no religion left in the world.