Edmund Burke: “The first openings of civility have been everywhere made by religion.”

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

They come from one who has been no tool of power, no flatterer of greatness, and who in his last acts does not wish to belie the tenor of his life.

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.

It was not made to entice the smell of a mole, nuzzling and burying himself in his mother earth, as yours is.