Edmund Burke: “Never were the two princes guilty, in the day of their power, of a single hard or ill-natured act.”

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

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

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

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.