Edmund Burke: “They were young and inexperienced; and when will young and inexperienced men learn caution and distrust of themselves?”

In all this procedure I can discern neither the solid sense of plain dealing nor the subtle dexterity of ingenious fraud.

Of this consolation whoever deprives them deadens their industry, and strikes at the root of all acquisition as of all conservation.

But when the leaders choose to make themselves bidders at an auction of popularity, their talents, in the construction of the state, will be of no service.

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.