Edmund Burke: “The question is, whether this policy be suitable to the interests of the crown and subjects of Great Britain.”

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

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

I think our happy situation owing to our Constitution,--but owing to the whole of it, and not to any part singly,--owing in a great measure to what we have left standing in our several reviews and reformations, as well as to what we have…

Our people will find employment enough for a truly patriotic, free, and independent spirit, in guarding what they possess from violation.