Edmund Burke: “Though my hand but signs it, my heart goes with what I have written.”

They must respect that property of which they cannot partake.

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…

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

They come from one who has been no tool of power, no flatterer of greatness, and who in his last acts does not wish to belie the tenor of his life.