Edmund Burke: “Liberty, such as deserves the name, is an honest, equitable, diffusive, and impartial principle.”

Our people will find employment enough for a truly patriotic, free, and independent spirit, in guarding what they possess from violation.

Not being illuminated with the light of which the gentlemen of France tell us they have got so abundant a share, they acted under a strong impression of the ignorance and fallibility of mankind.

Let us imitate their caution, if we wish to deserve their fortune or to retain their bequests.

This was reserved to our time, to quench the little glimmerings of reason which might break in upon the solid darkness of this enlightened age.