Edmund Burke: “He endeavors to crush the aristocratic party, and to nourish one in avowed connection with the most furious democratists…”

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

But when the Assembly were led, through a contempt of moral, to a defiance of economical principles, it might at least have been expected that nothing would be omitted on their part to lessen this difficulty, to prevent any aggravation of…

It is the greatest of all possible evils; for it is folly, vice, and madness, without tuition or restraint.

I think our happy situation owing to our Constitution,--but owing to the whole of it, and not to any part singly,--owing in a great measure to what we have left standing in our several reviews and reformations, as well as to what we have…