Edmund Burke: “These gentle historians, on the contrary, dip their pens in nothing but the milk of human kindness.”

It was not made to entice the smell of a mole, nuzzling and burying himself in his mother earth, as yours is.

To establish a current circulating credit upon any land-bank, under any circumstances whatsoever, has hitherto proved difficult at the very least.

I think our happy situation owing to our Constitution,--but owing to the whole of it, and not to any part singly,--owing in a great measure to what we have left standing in our several reviews and reformations, as well as to what we have…

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.