Edmund Burke: “He is doing, indeed, a great good,--such as rarely falls to the lot, and almost as rarely coincides with the desires, of…”

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

By adhering in this manner and on those principles to our forefathers, we are guided, not by the superstition of antiquarians, but by the spirit of philosophic analogy.

A few years ago I should be ashamed to overload a matter so capable of supporting itself by the then unnecessary support of any argument; but this seditious, unconstitutional doctrine is now publicly taught, avowed, and printed.

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.