Edmund Burke: “If measures of peace are necessary, they must begin somewhere; and a conciliatory temper must precede and prepare every…”

They come from one who has been no tool of power, no flatterer of greatness, and who in his last acts does not wish to belie the tenor of his life.

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.

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

Let us imitate their caution, if we wish to deserve their fortune or to retain their bequests.