Edmund Burke: “In the Catholic question I considered only one point: Was it, at the time, and in the circumstances, a measure which…”

They will become flatterers instead of legislators,--the instruments, not the guides of the people.

They cannot raise supplies; but they can raise mobs.

Rome, under her emperors, united the evils of both systems; and this unnatural combination was one great cause of her ruin.

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.