Edmund Burke: “This point is the great Serbonian bog, betwixt Damiata and Mount Casius old, where armies whole have sunk.”

An irregular, convulsive movement may be necessary to throw off an irregular, convulsive disease.

Their objects would be enlarged with their elevation; but their disposition, and habits, and mode of accomplishing their designs must remain the same.

All your sophisters cannot produce anything better adapted to preserve a rational and manly freedom than the course that we have pursued, who have chosen our nature rather than our speculations, our breasts rather than our inventions, for…

By adhering in this manner and on those principles to our forefathers, we are guided, not by the superstition of antiquarians, but by the spirit of philosophic analogy.