Edmund Burke: “Here is a principle of a nature to the multitude the most seductive, always existing before their eyes as a thing…”

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

This was reserved to our time, to quench the little glimmerings of reason which might break in upon the solid darkness of this enlightened age.

To tell the people that they are relieved by the dilapidation of their public estate is a cruel and insolent imposition.

Let us add, if we please, but let us preserve what they have left; and standing on the firm ground of the British Constitution, let us be satisfied to admire, rather than attempt to follow in their desperate flights, the aëronauts of…