Edmund Burke: “One thing is certain,--that in this political game the great lottery of power is that into which men will purchase with…”

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.

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.

The prattling about the rights of men will not be accepted in payment of a biscuit or a pound of gunpowder.

In some people I see great liberty, indeed; in many, if not in the most, an oppressive, degrading servitude.