Edmund Burke: “No peer has condescended to superintend with more vigilance the declining franchises of the poor commons.”

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

Not being illuminated with the light of which the gentlemen of France tell us they have got so abundant a share, they acted under a strong impression of the ignorance and fallibility of mankind.

Whatever they are, I wish my countrymen rather to recommend to our neighbors the example of the British Constitution than to take models from them for the improvement of our own.

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.