Edmund Burke: “Our business is, to leave to the schools the discussion of the controverted points, abating as much as we can the…”

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

To establish a current circulating credit upon any land-bank, under any circumstances whatsoever, has hitherto proved difficult at the very least.

There are some follies which baffle argument, which go beyond ridicule, and which excite no feeling in us but disgust; and therefore I say no more upon it.

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.