Edmund Burke: “You may turn us out at the door, but we will jump in at the window.”

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.

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

By adhering in this manner and on those principles to our forefathers, we are guided, not by the superstition of antiquarians, but by the spirit of philosophic analogy.

The people of England will not ape the fashions they have never tried, nor go back to those which they have found mischievous on trial.