Edmund Burke: “He burned the Druids in their own fires; and that no retreat might be afforded to that order, their consecrated woods…”

But when the leaders choose to make themselves bidders at an auction of popularity, their talents, in the construction of the state, will be of no service.

The improvements of the National Assembly are superficial, their errors fundamental.

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.