Edmund Burke: “Until you come back to that system, there will be no peace for England.”

Our people will find employment enough for a truly patriotic, free, and independent spirit, in guarding what they possess from violation.

I would not exclude alteration neither; but even when I changed, it should be to preserve.

Not being illuminated with the light of which the gentlemen of France tell us they have got so abundant a share, they acted under a strong impression of the ignorance and fallibility of mankind.

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.