Edmund Burke: “Meanwhile the king by his personal vices completed the odium which he had acquired by the impotent violence of his…”

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.

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.

It is the greatest of all possible evils; for it is folly, vice, and madness, without tuition or restraint.

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.