Edmund Burke: “Talk not to me of what swarm of republics may come from this carcass!”

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

Whatever they are, I wish my countrymen rather to recommend to our neighbors the example of the British Constitution than to take models from them for the improvement of our own.

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

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