Edmund Burke: “I do not justify it; but the abuse is now grown so inveterate that to punish it without previous notice would have an…”

This idea of a liberal descent inspires us with a sense of habitual native dignity, which prevents that upstart insolence almost inevitably adhering to and disgracing those who are the first acquirers of any distinction.

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?

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

Their trust for the future preservation of the Constitution was not in future revolutions.