Edmund Burke: “Nothing restrains the tempter; nothing guards the tempted.”

Let us add, if we please, but let us preserve what they have left; and standing on the firm ground of the British Constitution, let us be satisfied to admire, rather than attempt to follow in their desperate flights, the aëronauts of…

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

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

This is the result of all the delusions held out to engage a miserable people in rebellion, murder, and sacrilege, and to make them prompt and zealous instruments in the ruin of their country!