Edmund Burke: “Indeed, without some such prudence in the use of authority, I do not know, at least in the present time, how any power…”

Rome, under her emperors, united the evils of both systems; and this unnatural combination was one great cause of her ruin.

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…

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

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