Edmund Burke: “A final acquittance (or a quietus, as they term it) is scarcely ever to be obtained.”

But when the leaders choose to make themselves bidders at an auction of popularity, their talents, in the construction of the state, will be of no service.

Let us add, if we please, but let us preserve what they have left; and standing on the firm ground of the British Constitution, let us be satisfied to admire, rather than attempt to follow in their desperate flights, the aëronauts of…

Whatever they are, I wish my countrymen rather to recommend to our neighbors the example of the British Constitution than to take models from them for the improvement of our own.

Our people will find employment enough for a truly patriotic, free, and independent spirit, in guarding what they possess from violation.