Edmund Burke: “It is remarkable, that they never see any way to their projected good but by the road of some evil.”

Governments must be abused and deranged indeed, before it can be thought of; and the prospect of the future must be as bad as the experience of the past.

The people of England will not ape the fashions they have never tried, nor go back to those which they have found mischievous on trial.

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

Who could doubt but that, at any expense to the state, of which they understood nothing, they must pursue their private interests, which they understood but too well?