Edmund Burke: “I think we may dispute, rail, persecute, and provoke the Catholics out of their prejudices; but it is not in ours they…”

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.

To keep a balance between the power of acquisition on the part of the subject and the demands he is to answer on the part of the state is the fundamental part of the skill of a true politician.

They have not more notes in their song than the cuckoo; though, far from the softness of that harbinger of summer and plenty, their voice is as harsh and as ominous as that of the raven.

In all this procedure I can discern neither the solid sense of plain dealing nor the subtle dexterity of ingenious fraud.