Edmund Burke: “There is a difference, too, between deliberation and doctrine: a man ought to be decided in his opinions before he…”

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…

They cannot raise supplies; but they can raise mobs.

It is an evil inevitably attendant on the dominion of sovereign democratic republics.

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.