Edmund Burke: “It will tend totally to remove from their minds that very terror of a civil war which is held out as our sole security.”

I would not exclude alteration neither; but even when I changed, it should be to preserve.

Let us add, if we please, but let us preserve what they have left; and standing on the firm ground of the British Constitution, let us be satisfied to admire, rather than attempt to follow in their desperate flights, the aëronauts of…

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.

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