Edmund Burke: “That discretion, which in judicature is well said by Lord Coke to be a crooked cord, in legislature is a golden rule.”

Let us add, if we please, but let us preserve what they have left; and standing on the firm ground of the British Constitution, let us be satisfied to admire, rather than attempt to follow in their desperate flights, the aëronauts of…

Of this consolation whoever deprives them deadens their industry, and strikes at the root of all acquisition as of all conservation.

Those who know what virtuous liberty is cannot bear to see it disgraced by incapable heads, on account of their having high-sounding words in their mouths.

This is the result of all the delusions held out to engage a miserable people in rebellion, murder, and sacrilege, and to make them prompt and zealous instruments in the ruin of their country!