Edmund Burke: “Knowledge, which in the two last centuries either did not exist at all, or existed solidly on right principles and in…”

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

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!

To keep a balance between the power of acquisition on the part of the subject and the demands he is to answer on the part of the state is the fundamental part of the skill of a true politician.

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.