Edmund Burke: “Conspiracies and treasons are privileged pleasures, not to be profaned by the impure and unhallowed touch of Papists.”

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…

Every honest mind, every true lover of liberty and humanity, must rejoice to find that injustice is not always good policy, nor rapine the high-road to riches.

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.

It is the greatest of all possible evils; for it is folly, vice, and madness, without tuition or restraint.