Edmund Burke: “Earth below shook; heaven above menaced; all the elements of ministerial safety were dissolved.”

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.

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

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