Edmund Burke: “There never was a political contest, upon better or worse grounds, that by the heat of party-spirit may not ripen into…”

This was reserved to our time, to quench the little glimmerings of reason which might break in upon the solid darkness of this enlightened age.

I think our happy situation owing to our Constitution,--but owing to the whole of it, and not to any part singly,--owing in a great measure to what we have left standing in our several reviews and reformations, as well as to what we have…

Rome, under her emperors, united the evils of both systems; and this unnatural combination was one great cause of her ruin.

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