Edmund Burke: “Alas! they little know how many a weary step is to be taken before they can form themselves into a mass which has a true…”

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.

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

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

But when the leaders choose to make themselves bidders at an auction of popularity, their talents, in the construction of the state, will be of no service.