Edmund Burke: “If, when you attempted to extract revenue from Bengal, you were obliged to return in loan what you had taken in…”

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

Let us add, if we please, but let us preserve what they have left; and standing on the firm ground of the British Constitution, let us be satisfied to admire, rather than attempt to follow in their desperate flights, the aëronauts of…

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…