Edmund Burke: “Never was so gross and so cruel a breach of the public faith, not with an enemy, but with a friend.”

I would not exclude alteration neither; but even when I changed, it should be to preserve.

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

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.

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.