Edmund Burke: “We are therefore never authorized to abandon our country to its fate, or to act or advise as if it had no resource.”

But what is liberty without wisdom and without virtue?

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.

They must respect that property of which they cannot partake.

There are some follies which baffle argument, which go beyond ridicule, and which excite no feeling in us but disgust; and therefore I say no more upon it.