Edmund Burke: “If you do, you had much better do it now in temper, in a grave, moderate, and parliamentary way.”

There are some follies which baffle argument, which go beyond ridicule, and which excite no feeling in us but disgust; and therefore I say no more upon it.

It is an evil inevitably attendant on the dominion of sovereign democratic republics.

But what is liberty without wisdom and without virtue?

Not being illuminated with the light of which the gentlemen of France tell us they have got so abundant a share, they acted under a strong impression of the ignorance and fallibility of mankind.