Edmund Burke: “These are some of my reasons for wishing the support of the Church of Ireland as by law established.”

But to form a free government, that is, to temper together these opposite elements of liberty and restraint in one consistent work, requires much thought, deep reflection, a sagacious, powerful, and combining mind.

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

The only difference among their financial factions is on the greater or the lesser quantity of assignats to be imposed on the public sufferance.

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.