Edmund Burke: “In all very uncultivated countries, as society is not close nor intricate, nor property very valuable, liberty subsists…”

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

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

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.

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.