Edmund Burke: “Our duties are harsh and invidious in their nature; and justice and safety is all we can expect in the exercise of them.”

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

If any of them should happen to propose a scheme of liberty soberly limited, and defined with proper qualifications, he will be immediately outbid by his competitors, who will produce something more splendidly popular.

Not being illuminated with the light of which the gentlemen of France tell us they have got so abundant a share, they acted under a strong impression of the ignorance and fallibility of mankind.

They will become flatterers instead of legislators,--the instruments, not the guides of the people.