Edmund Burke: “Poor souls, they are to be pitied, who think of nothing but dangers long passed by, and but little of the perils that…”

The body of the people must not find the principles of natural subordination by art rooted out of their minds.

If any of them should happen to propose a scheme of liberty soberly limited, and defined with proper qualifications, he will be immediately outbid by his competitors, who will produce something more splendidly popular.

Whatever they are, I wish my countrymen rather to recommend to our neighbors the example of the British Constitution than to take models from them for the improvement of our own.

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.