Edmund Burke: “It was in a great degree from this manner of life that mankind became scattered in the earliest times over the whole…”

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.

The body of the people must not find the principles of natural subordination by art rooted out of their minds.

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…

They cannot raise supplies; but they can raise mobs.