Edmund Burke: “JACK CARTER understood perfectly the doctrine of looking to the end, with an indifference to the means, and the…”

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.

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.

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.