Edmund Burke: “In this diffusion each man's portion is less than what, in the eagerness of his desires, he may flatter himself to…”

The people of England will not ape the fashions they have never tried, nor go back to those which they have found mischievous on trial.

Who could flatter himself that these men, suddenly, and as it were by enchantment, snatched from the humblest rank of subordination, would not be intoxicated with their unprepared greatness?

An irregular, convulsive movement may be necessary to throw off an irregular, convulsive disease.

They have little regard to the obvious consequences of their doctrine, though they may see that it leaves positive authority in very few of the positive institutions of this country.