Edmund Burke: “Government was at once to show itself full of virtue and full of force.”

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.

In all this procedure I can discern neither the solid sense of plain dealing nor the subtle dexterity of ingenious fraud.

The prattling about the rights of men will not be accepted in payment of a biscuit or a pound of gunpowder.

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.