Edmund Burke: “His conduct is the most perfect model for those employed in the unhappy, but sometimes necessary task, of subduing a…”

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…

The only difference among their financial factions is on the greater or the lesser quantity of assignats to be imposed on the public sufferance.

The prattling about the rights of men will not be accepted in payment of a biscuit or a pound of gunpowder.

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.