Edmund Burke: “The fault I find in the scheme is, that it falls extremely short of that liberality in the commercial system which I…”

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…

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

The engagement and pact of society, which generally goes by the name of the Constitution, forbids such invasion and such surrender.

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.