Edmund Burke: “This refusal of treating conjointly with the powers allied against this republic furnishes matter for a great deal of…”

It is the greatest of all possible evils; for it is folly, vice, and madness, without tuition or restraint.

Whatever they are, I wish my countrymen rather to recommend to our neighbors the example of the British Constitution than to take models from them for the improvement of our own.

I would not exclude alteration neither; but even when I changed, it should be to preserve.

This is the result of all the delusions held out to engage a miserable people in rebellion, murder, and sacrilege, and to make them prompt and zealous instruments in the ruin of their country!