Edmund Burke: “They subvert all the authority which they hold, as well as all that which they have destroyed.”

I think our happy situation owing to our Constitution,--but owing to the whole of it, and not to any part singly,--owing in a great measure to what we have left standing in our several reviews and reformations, as well as to what we have…

The body of the people must not find the principles of natural subordination by art rooted out of their minds.

But what is liberty without wisdom and without virtue?

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.