Edmund Burke: “Suspicion, if it does not stain the soul of a courageous man, at least arrests his thoughts in their passage to his…”

Rome, under her emperors, united the evils of both systems; and this unnatural combination was one great cause of her ruin.

This was reserved to our time, to quench the little glimmerings of reason which might break in upon the solid darkness of this enlightened age.

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.

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.