Edmund Burke: “This standing, unalterable, fundamental government would make, and it is the only thing which could make, that territory…”

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

Let us add, if we please, but let us preserve what they have left; and standing on the firm ground of the British Constitution, let us be satisfied to admire, rather than attempt to follow in their desperate flights, the aëronauts of…

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

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.