Edmund Burke: “I hold them to be of an absolute necessity in the Constitution; but I think they are only good when kept within their…”

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

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.

In all this procedure I can discern neither the solid sense of plain dealing nor the subtle dexterity of ingenious fraud.

Every honest mind, every true lover of liberty and humanity, must rejoice to find that injustice is not always good policy, nor rapine the high-road to riches.