Edmund Burke: “Depend upon it, they must all be supported, or they must all fall in the crash of a common ruin.”

Let us imitate their caution, if we wish to deserve their fortune or to retain their bequests.

Those who know what virtuous liberty is cannot bear to see it disgraced by incapable heads, on account of their having high-sounding words in their mouths.

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.

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.