Edmund Burke: “I think I shall be permitted to assume that a system of frugality will not lessen your riches, whatever they may be.”

A state without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation.

Governments must be abused and deranged indeed, before it can be thought of; and the prospect of the future must be as bad as the experience of the past.

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.

The people of England will not ape the fashions they have never tried, nor go back to those which they have found mischievous on trial.