Edmund Burke: “Nor can you content other men's conscience, real or pretended, by any concessions: follow your own; seek peace and ensue…”

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.

If any of them should happen to propose a scheme of liberty soberly limited, and defined with proper qualifications, he will be immediately outbid by his competitors, who will produce something more splendidly popular.

But to form a free government, that is, to temper together these opposite elements of liberty and restraint in one consistent work, requires much thought, deep reflection, a sagacious, powerful, and combining mind.

It was not made to entice the smell of a mole, nuzzling and burying himself in his mother earth, as yours is.