Edmund Burke: “But no power avoids complaining of an atrocious injury, if any one attempts by his emissaries to excite his subjects to…”

There are some follies which baffle argument, which go beyond ridicule, and which excite no feeling in us but disgust; and therefore I say no more upon it.

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

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

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.