Edmund Burke: “It was on this trying occasion that Henry displayed a greatness independent of all fortune.”

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…

It was not made to entice the smell of a mole, nuzzling and burying himself in his mother earth, as yours is.

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 cannot raise supplies; but they can raise mobs.