Edmund Burke: “There is no qualification for government but virtue and wisdom, actual or presumptive.”

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.

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

It is an evil inevitably attendant on the dominion of sovereign democratic republics.

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.