Edmund Burke: “Admitting, then, the enormity of this unnatural rebellion in favor of the independence of Ireland, will it follow that…”

Who but the most desperate adventurers in philosophy and finance could at all have thought of destroying the settled revenue of the state, the sole security for the public credit, in the hope of rebuilding it with the materials of…

I think our happy situation owing to our Constitution,--but owing to the whole of it, and not to any part singly,--owing in a great measure to what we have left standing in our several reviews and reformations, as well as to what we have…

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

They have not more notes in their song than the cuckoo; though, far from the softness of that harbinger of summer and plenty, their voice is as harsh and as ominous as that of the raven.