Edmund Burke: “And they will hope, that here, if antimonarchical opinions gain ground as they have done in France, they may, as in…”

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

If any of them should happen to propose a scheme of liberty soberly limited, and defined with proper qualifications, he will be immediately outbid by his competitors, who will produce something more splendidly popular.

They come from one who has been no tool of power, no flatterer of greatness, and who in his last acts does not wish to belie the tenor of his life.

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