Edmund Burke: “To assert myself thus traduced is not vanity or arrogance.”

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

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

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

This is the result of all the delusions held out to engage a miserable people in rebellion, murder, and sacrilege, and to make them prompt and zealous instruments in the ruin of their country!