Edmund Burke: “The untempered spirit of madness, blindness, immorality, and impiety deserves no commendation.”

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

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.

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

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.