Edmund Burke: “We shall be barbarized on both sides of the water, if we do not see one another now and then.”

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

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

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.

They rob only to enable them to cheat; but in a very short time they defeat the ends both of the robbery and the fraud, by making out accounts for other purposes, which blow up their whole apparatus of force and of deception.