Edmund Burke: “Their trials were so many conjurations, and the magical ceremonies of barbarity and heathenism entered into law and…”

I would not exclude alteration neither; but even when I changed, it should be to preserve.

Of this consolation whoever deprives them deadens their industry, and strikes at the root of all acquisition as of all conservation.

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.

Those who know what virtuous liberty is cannot bear to see it disgraced by incapable heads, on account of their having high-sounding words in their mouths.