Edmund Burke: “It is right always to have a few of every description, through whom you may quietly operate on the many, both for the…”

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.

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.

Of this consolation whoever deprives them deadens their industry, and strikes at the root of all acquisition as of all conservation.

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.