Edmund Burke: “That revolution seems to have extended even to the constitution of the mind of man.”

But when the leaders choose to make themselves bidders at an auction of popularity, their talents, in the construction of the state, will be of no service.

In some people I see great liberty, indeed; in many, if not in the most, an oppressive, degrading servitude.

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

There are some follies which baffle argument, which go beyond ridicule, and which excite no feeling in us but disgust; and therefore I say no more upon it.